• His son recalls there were hundreds of students lined up outside the school, which was in a dilapidated building in a dirt-poor village.

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  • Expected to be operational in the autumn, it will replace a dilapidated shed currently being used as a makeshift hedgehog hospital.

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  • Several stables are in disrepair, and the federation's future museum is presently a dilapidated trailer containing photos, animal hides and a hodgepodge of memorabilia and artifacts.

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  • In 1981, she bought a small dilapidated building in Cicero, a Chicago suburb, to serve as United Scrap's headquarters.

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  • On the other hand, a few miles away, a dilapidated in-town neighborhood was razed and rejuvenated with a combination of public and private money.

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  • The Conservative-led council had planned to replace the building with a car park, claiming it was in a "dilapidated state" and was running at a loss.

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  • Behind Jason's position, from where he scans the surrounding quay through his gun sight, is a dilapidated caravan.

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  • Dam999 revolves around a dilapidated dam in India which was built in 1895.

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  • By 1991 it was mooted that the club merge with nearby Finchley, which had a dilapidated stadium but no money.

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  • Mr. Gurney designed the four-bedroom, seven-bathroom home in Washington's Forest Hills neighborhood, tearing down a dilapidated 1922 Victorian on the property.

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  • He showed me around the Tower Works, an historic Victorian manufacturing site in Leeds which had been left as a dilapidated site in the 1990s.

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  • Seventy years ago he was born here, on the grounds of the Sa Cova vineyard, in a dilapidated stone building built into the gentle slope of the hillside.

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  • It adds to the general dystopian, dilapidated landscape quite a bit.

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  • With a few exceptions - most notably a dilapidated World War II prisoner of war camp in County Durham - all the buildings are pre-20th Century.

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  • Most cities, however dilapidated, possess a civic focus completely lacking in the suburban conurbations: government offices, cathedrals, courts, theatres, and various forums for intellectual and cultural exchange.

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  • He looked through the kitchen window, but the yard was empty and all he could see, among the thistles and scrap iron, was a dilapidated cart with two rusty wheels.

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  • One of the Army's most senior generals is vowing to personally oversee the upgrade of a dilapidated hospital ward that houses soldiers recovering from injuries sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  • One day shortly thereafter, Bon Jovi was walking through a dilapidated section of North Philadelphia with housing crusader Sister Mary Scullion, who suggested he fix up one of the houses.

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  • What he walked into: a dilapidated, Soviet-built military factory where light bulbs swung from wires, birds frolicked in the hallways, and people in cold, broken-windowed conference rooms could see their breath.

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  • Substantial parts of Johannesburg are still dilapidated, but a decade of revitalization efforts by the local government and private investors is slowly wrenching the city out of a two decade period of decline.

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  • "If we only redid the sanctuary, it would have been a beautifully restored building that was empty most of the time, instead of a dilapidated building that was empty most of the time, " he said.

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  • In the village of Santo Domingo, the ICRC sets up its clinic in the long abandoned health centre - a dilapidated three-room building with broken windows, and, like the rest of the village, no electricity.

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  • When he hired Raikes from a low-level marketing job at Apple (18 months out of Stanford undergraduate), the new recruit spent a few months living with Ballmer in a dilapidated three-bedroom house in the posh Seattle neighborhood of Laurelhurst, where Raikes now lives.

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  • It turns out to be a dilapidated mansion run by an enthusiastic young man who is tone deaf to the culture shock his guests experience over everything from plumbing malfunctions and spicy food, to the chaotic city of Jaipur, where the film was shot.

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  • So, for example, you can't lend money from your IRA to your brother or use your own contracting firm to remodel a dilapidated investment property owned by your IRA. Those who violate this rule, even inadvertently, risk being taxed immediately on the entire IRA balance.

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  • But Giuseppe Pallanti now says records from the time show that she died aged 63 in July 1542 and was buried in a now dilapidated convent in Florence.

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  • However, by 1979 the buildings were getting dilapidated and Sir Jimmy began a campaign to re-open the unit.

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  • The 97-minute play takes place on the Fourth of July in 1944 in a beautifully rendered, dilapidated boathouse on the Talley farm.

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