Sentence examples for back houses from inspiring English sources

"At some point," he added, owners "realized it would be even more lucrative to knock down both the front and back houses and replace the whole shebang with a tenement".

They usually came to the valley in summer, rented "back houses"—often simply converted garages and sheds and returned home in winter, when work became harder to find.Better policing of the border has created what Philip Martin, an agricultural economist, calls a "sea-wall effect".

What's more, the council, which is purchasing properties in the area as part of a regeneration project, is buying back houses which it had previously sold to tenants, thus losing up to £50,000 per property.Despite private mutterings by the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, the government has stamped on speculative stories suggesting that the scheme is to be suspended.

The MediaPad's back houses an 8MP camera and the tablet measures in at just 8.8mm thick.

They replaced run down back to back houses.

And then there was the back house.

It is a process of spontaneous and diffuse back housing which involves the recovery of abandoned rural settlements, or the spread of new single-family homes primarily.

In 1830 the cost of building a small back to back house in Leeds was between seventy and eighty pounds.

The wolf lair is in the back house of a 1920s Spanish-style home in the Washington-Crenshaw district.

Many of the inner-city back-to-back houses that once provided an abundance of cheap lodgings were pulled down.

One of the first acquisitions on her watch was a set of back-to-back houses that had been part of the slums of Birmingham.