A commission was set up to preserve historical houses in the city.

成立了一个委员会来保护城里的那些历史建筑。

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Many fine old houses in the city are being sentenced to destruction by the council's rebuilding plans.

本市很多完好的古老建筑都因市议会的重建规划而将被拆毁。

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Since 1991 we have grown from a small printing company to one of the largest publishing houses in the city.

从1991年以来，我们从一个小印刷公司成长为本市最大的学商务英语之一。

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There are more than six hundred houses of nineteenth century Victorian design in the city.

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In which of Lima's houses, the city glittering with gold, live those who built it?

利马金城 熠熠夺目,铄金之人,所居何处

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In the city, the houses are almost all painted white.

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The BBC's Thabo Kunene, in Bulawayo, says that most houses in the city, even in townships, do possess toilets which flush, unlike in many African countries.

BBC: Synchronised toilet flush held in Zimbabwe's Bulawayo

The Somali group has an extensive presence in Nairobi -- home to a quarter-million Somali refugees -- and operates a network of safe houses in the city.

CNN: Mysterious al Qaeda 'envoy' dispenses aid in Somalia

The most remarkable part of the story hasn't taken place in the Cambridgeshire countryside that houses Huntingdon and its labs but in the City of London.

FORBES: Fearful financiers