"We basically got a building plot free, which is almost unheard of in London, " said Mr. Turner.

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Within three months they had signed a contract saying the developer would build and then lease Wal-Mart a building for a wholesale store on a four-acre plot.

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Yodobashi plans to build a 40-storey office block and a nine-storey commercial building on the plot.

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She envisions getting a small plot of land in Northern California and building a house there.

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In the past 6 years, we have stopped numerous attacks, including a plot to fly a plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles and another to blow up passenger jets bound for America over the Atlantic.

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He's building a house in Spain, has bought land, and even a plot in which to be buried.

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The government donated a plot, and the brothers put up the money for the building that the center shares with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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For the Morningside Center in Beijing, Yau got help from the Chinese government and Ronnie and his brother, Gerald. (Gerald and Yau had been friends since their future wives were roommates in San Francisco in the late 1960s.) The government donated a plot, and the brothers put up the money for a building the center shares with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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The new 11-story American Embassy building will be surrounded by gardens and a partial moat on a circular 5-acre plot ringed by a tall wall.

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