brick house

collocation in English

meaningsofbrickandhouse

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brick
noun
uk
/brɪk/us
/brɪk/
a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofbrickandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even at thebrickhouse, for example, we investigated the possibility of using loadbearing brick, but it was not viable.
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They are of lighter and cheaper construction than those in the traditionalbrickhouse.
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It costs £515, and a comfortablebrickhousecosts £466.
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They were designed to have a thermal insulation as good as or better than that of a normalbrickhouse.
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Many people would not mind going into a timber house, but most people prefer abrickhouse.
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That, of course, must mean that one tends to get a higher price for a prefabricated house than one would get for abrickhouse.
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It is calculated that to build an 18,000brickhouseit should take a bricklayer 12 weeks to do his part of the work.
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As a matter of fact, the cheapest house you can build is abrickhouse.
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The excess cost over that of abrickhousewould in any case not be a charge to public funds.
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The cost should compare favourably with that of a comparablebrickhouse.
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In this respect the bungalow is not inferior to the normalbrickhouse.
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We are told that the insulation quality of this house is equivalent to that of abrickhousewith such a wall thickness.
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A timber house, which is put down to-day as costing £458, could not be made comparable with abrickhouse, which now costs £466.
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Here is a house—to go over its advantages again—which is cheaper, quicker to build and four times as strong as abrickhousewhen built.
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In abrickhouse, which before the war would have cost £461, the materials themselves for a similar house now cost £501, as against £313 before the war.
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The wolf blew the first two houses down, but it could not blow thebrickhousedown.
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There will be a special grant to local authorities to reduce the cost of these houses to the average cost of the traditionalbrickhousein a particular area.
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The output of a bricklayer who takes 12 weeks to build his portion of an 18,000brickhousewould be equal to 273 bricks a clay.
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If a timber house is wanted of the standard of abrickhouse, it is necessary to spend from £100 to £130 to bring it up to that standard.
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