Sentence examples for barely a building from inspiring English sources

This is rural Hawaii: waves and coastline on one side, lush mountains on the other and barely a building or vehicle in sight.

"War has left people with barely a space to live in, barely a building that has not come under the torch".

Even better, the beaches are backed by a strip of protected dunes, so there's barely a building visible from the shore; most holiday homes and hotels cluster on a hillside a mile away.

The one nearest Calasetta, Sottotorre, is a pretty, perfect locals' beach, with clear water and no concessions – but it's worth driving a few kilometres to Le Saline and Spiaggia Grande, with their wide sweeps of sand, barely a building in sight, and free parking.

But the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a pavilion of video screens and gathering spaces aimed at investigations of urban life, barely looks like a building at all.

The man's toes barely fit on a building lip below, so he mostly clung to the window ledge by his fingers.

For their patch of a barely habitable building with a two-window view of the Adidas, Carnaby and TJ Collection shops across Nevsky, they pay 140 rubles a month, about $4.50.

Nearly 18 months after the Israelis bombed Gaza to a wasteland, with barely a load of building materials allowed in since then, Turkey has taken the brunt of an operation of humanitarian assistance gone wrong.

Five of them share a tiny room and a kitchen in the barely viable wing of a building that's bulging at the seams with structural problems.

Wrenching in impact, these absorbing accounts were surely yet more overwhelming than those ill-prepared premieres in the workshop-like surroundings of a barely completed building.

GM has barely begun building a dealer network for its Chevrolet brand.