Sentence examples for block of town from inspiring English sources

On 30th Street, he turned left onto a pleasant block of town houses.

The problem is that a network with a great signal in one block of town can be terrible in the next.

Transport was devastated as parts of the M6 and the East Coast main line became temporary rivers, and swirling underground water left a block of town houses in Newburn, Newcastle, seemingly on stilts as earth round the foundations was swept away.

Just wandering around the half dozen blocks of town, it was obvious that the festival was in full swing.

Redeveloped in the 1990s after years of neglect, Midtown has blocks of town houses as well as shopping and dining — a cluster of bars and restaurants is about two blocks away.

But Mr. Adams wants 2,000 more Harlem properties protected, including the former residences of the artist Norman Rockwell, the musician Scott Joplin and the magician Harry Houdini, along with apartment buildings, synagogues, churches and blocks upon blocks of town houses.

Some parts of Spain, such as Catalonia, have laws to restrict shopping hours and block out-of-town stores, aimed at preserving small food shops (many of which are now run by Chinese immigrants) and preventing suburban sprawl (from which Madrid, more liberal in these matters, now suffers).

The block of graceful town houses has uncommonly good light, and few if any comparable town houses are on the market.

Chinese paramilitary units are now posted on every block of the town of Ngaba, and Kirti is under lockdown.

JUST off Oak Street, the main drag of Hood River, Ore., there's a block of multistory town houses, each with an ordinary-looking garage door at street level.

On Bowne Street near Holly Avenue ornate blue towers rise on a block of small town houses and storefronts: they top Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devasthanam, one of Flushing's several Hindu temples.