How To Use Tower block In A Sentence
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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Gone are the artist's impressions of a new Lord's Tube station, latterly superseded by proposals for an underground car park in the old railway tunnels, for four residential tower blocks at the Nursery end and a submerged Real Tennis court.
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And even more amazing that he can still squeeze through chimneys and central heating air vents in tower blocks.
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It is the withdrawal of this assurance that contributes to the widespread dissatisfaction with home life in a tower block.
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Rebus's ` circled wagons 'actually consisted of a single-roomed Portakabin, placed in the car park next to the nearest tower block.
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It is a grim suburb of Wishaw, composed of high-rise tower blocks and a network of lower-level blocks of flats, narrow alleyways and parking lots.
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Two firemen were hurt in a blaze which swept through a tower block last night.
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To the east is a landscape of concrete tower blocks.
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There were early tower blocks : some successful, others not.
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Near the bigger cities, concrete tower blocks were common and huge chimneys spewed clouds of smoke.
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Ugly tower blocks dominate the skyline.
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One by one the old buildings in the city have been demolished and replaced with modern tower blocks.
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Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre.
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They fear seven-storey tower blocks could dominate the skyline, competing with the cathedral in height.
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After the war the Soviets moved in and signs of its Communist past still exist in its many tower blocks.
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Amongst these, a flutter of origami birds was the bright spot, alongside a glossy triptych of photos slotting bleak landscape between bleak tower blocks.
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They contrast with the often impeccably maintained town centres and are largely made up of high-rise tower blocks that are lacking in amenities, especially for the youth.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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A spokesman for the Housing Department would only say that the tower blocks had seemed a good idea at the time.
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We've got the yearly circus in the field near our tower block again.
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Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response.
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Yesterday the authorities began to clear away the burned-out vehicles from around the tower blocks in Clichy-sous-Bois, but resentment smoulders.
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What with all its offices and tower blocks, I happen to find it breathtakingly barren and rather miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years the Dundee skyline was dominated by the monolithic tower blocks of the Ardler housing estate.
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They took over a condemned 1960s tower block last year for one night.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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Our reporters were stunned to discover the duty concierge sleeping as they entered the flats' reception and were able to roam freely in all three of the tower blocks without any security personnel stopping them.
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She lives in a tower block on an estate in London.
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The old houses were dwarfed by the huge new tower blocks.
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One by one the old buildings in the city have been demolished and replaced with modern tower blocks.
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There were some nice apartments too, hidden inside the grubbiness of the uniform tower blocks and made comfortable with Western electronics and full bookshelves.
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Instead, he turned up in front of the tower block the next afternoon bearing a six-pack of beer.
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Sydney's sole flirtation with the horror of British post-war tower block public housing looms large on the Redfern horizon and tellingly, most shopfronts in the commercial hub still have Beirut Blinds.
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A lot of the old tower blocks have been torn down to make way for new housing.
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Glasgow certainly needs a modern landmark - something to deflect the eye from the miserable tower blocks of the 1960s.
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They took over a condemned 1960s tower block last year for one night.
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And new cars shed their value faster than a Steinway falls from the top of a tower block.
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To the east is a landscape of concrete tower blocks.
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One by one the old buildings in the city have been demolished and replaced with modern tower blocks.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two firemen were hurt in a blaze which swept through a tower block last night.
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Touching on themes such as love, greed, poverty, joy, embarrassment and rivalry, Sophie's work is also on show on hoardings that adjoin Arlington House, the spectacularly brutal 1960s tower block outside the train station.
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I remember the view out of the arched kitchen window being of beautiful countryside, but when we open the curtains there's a massive tower block there instead.
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But this awe-inspiring sight is simply harmless coastal fog swept into the sky by a line of shoreline tower blocks.
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It was on the sixth floor of this tower block, since demolished.
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I thought we were going to be trapped at the top of the tower block and that my children and me were going to die.
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Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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Ancient palaces and concrete tower blocks had crumbled in Kathmandu valley, where bodies were being unearthed from the rubble.
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`tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'
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There were early tower blocks : some successful, others not.
Times, Sunday Times
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The black, monolithic tower block, which is largely empty, is to be overhauled and the multi-storey car park demolished under current proposals.
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Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre.
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Ugly tower blocks dominate the skyline.
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There are around 120 flats in the tower block, with six flats on each floor.
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That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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His team has taken down more than 150 tower blocks and about 50 hospitals.
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This more northerly part of the area is in contrast to the mass tourism-dominated southern end of the Costa Brava, with its high-rise tower blocks and packed beaches.
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A vast tower block hotel just across from Edgware Road.
The Sun
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In May this year, we covered the burgeoning ‘grime’ scene with a brilliant piece of reportage that followed its rising stars through clubland and back to their tower block roots.
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Yet it seems firefighters were called out of the blazing tower block moments before they could have rescued the terrified victims.
The Sun
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New tower blocks and luxury villas are sprouting just as demand for them has started easing, analysts said.
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Some of the views from the top of tower blocks are absolutely tremendous.
The Sun
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That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout the grim tower blocks and porridge-grey council estates an implacable culture of cronyism, corruption and omertà rules.
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The kind of 10-minute blast of unadulterated grimness which turns up out of the blue late at night on BBC2, haranguing you with supposedly meaningful images of alcoholic depressives shouting at each other in tower blocks.
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A lot of the old tower blocks have been torn down to make way for new housing.
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She lives in a tower block on an estate in London.
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She lives in a tower block on an estate in London.
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Ancient palaces and concrete tower blocks had crumbled in Kathmandu valley, where bodies were being unearthed from the rubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Competition entrants are asked to look at how to transform the tower block typology into a new type of community.
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The silvery Tay turns out to be a dirty brown and the city's Stalinesque tower blocks dominate the skyline as the train putters in from the south.
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Even the bleak tower blocks of Hume are caught in limpid Northern sunlight, breaking through the clouds, making the estates look like places of hopeful promise.
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His team has taken down more than 150 tower blocks and about 50 hospitals.
Times, Sunday Times
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And new cars shed their value faster than a Steinway falls from the top of a tower block.
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Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response.
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Yet it seems firefighters were called out of the blazing tower block moments before they could have rescued the terrified victims.
The Sun
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In the 1950s, the great and the good - the people who really knew what was in the best interests of the lower orders - decided to bulldoze the slums and decant people into tower blocks.
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Ugly tower blocks dominate the skyline.
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During the past few months the problems and incidents when answering call-outs at high-rise tower blocks have escalated, they added.
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And even more amazing that he can still squeeze through chimneys and central heating air vents in tower blocks.
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A vast tower block hotel just across from Edgware Road.
The Sun
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Founded during the 1886 gold rush, Johannesburg had grown by the second half of the last century into a Manhattan of tower blocks amid the endless African veldt.
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THE tower block at the centre of yesterday's chopper crash boasts a 50million penthouse.
The Sun
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That and fearsome beasts toppling tower blocks like dominoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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What with all its offices and tower blocks, I happen to find it breathtakingly barren and rather miserable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just look at our privatized superhighways, our breath-taking airports, our glittering tower blocks - the highest in the world!
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Some of the views from the top of tower blocks are absolutely tremendous.
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