high-rise block
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhigh-riseandblock
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high-rise
adjective
uk/ˈhaɪ.raɪz/us/ˈhaɪ.raɪz/
tall, with ...
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block
noun
uk/blɒk/us/blɑːk/
mainly US
the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road crosses it, or one part of a street like this, especially in a town ...
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(Definition ofhigh-riseandblockfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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My constituency contains ahigh-riseblockof flats that could have been put to good use.
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It will not help the family with young children who are living in ahigh-riseblockand want a ground floor property.
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We were in ahigh-riseblockof flats, working along each corridor.
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That is not possible in ahigh-riseblockof flats.
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Will a woman living in one room in ahigh-riseblockof flats receive legal aid in order to appeal?
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That is a great difference to someone who is living in a draughty, dilapidated old house or in ahigh-riseblockof flats.
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They are living more than 11 stories high in ahigh-riseblockof flats.
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Confined to a tenancy on the 10th floor of ahigh-riseblock, he is no longer receiving any extra heating allowance.
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Equally, people will not wish to buy property in a tenement or ahigh-riseblock.
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Since she lives at the top of ahigh-riseblockof flats, the visit was something of a surprise.
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Does he not realise that he is trying to construct anotherhigh-riseblock, when the foundations are crumbling away?
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It is now not unusual for a council flat at the top of ahigh-riseblockto be valued for right-to-buy purposes at considerably in excess of £100,000.
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It is comparable to the belief which prevailed in earlier times that an appropriate form of housing for a family with children was ahigh-riseblock.
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No one wants to bundle a person from his home after 35 years to the 20th floor of ahigh-riseblockon the other side of the city.
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The company placed a television mast on a recently constructedhigh-riseblocknearby and relayed the received terrestrial signal by cable to many local homes.
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In place of terraced streets, high-rise blocks of apartments were built with the latest building techniques using prefabricated concrete and steel.
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High-rise blocks were far more desirable in his eyes.
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