When Voorjans first moved here 24 years ago, he settled in the third-floor apartment, then expanded as other floors became available over the years until he had the entire house to himself.

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On the third floor of a handsome apartment building with an antique lift, the elegant Anichkov Pension has six rooms and one gorgeous apartment.

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Back at his apartment, on the third floor of an old brick building within walking distance of campus, techno music suddenly blared, startling his downstairs neighbors, who knocked on his door and called police to complain.

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The large family squeezed itself into a third-floor apartment.

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