Sentence examples for blocks close from inspiring English sources

Find a copy of The Grapevine, an English-language weekly with entertainment listings, and start around midnight, concentrating on Laugavegur and blocks close by.

AS far as anyone knows, no vinegar has ever been mass-produced in Vinegar Hill, a minuscule neighborhood covering only eight blocks close to the Manhattan Bridge anchorage and abutting the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the borough's northwestern shore.

The maximum compensation depends on location within the eligible area, with the highest grants of $300,000 for businesses that had been in the World Trade Center and on blocks close to the site.

It was only 20 years ago that the company started to develop real estate projects, for the most part high-end apartment blocks close to the beach, Mr. Muylle said.

"I agree that you would not want to see a high-rise on some of those brownstone blocks close to Central Park," said Ms. Sackman, adding that her firm has restored 200 local brownstones since the '70s.

But the right of the gentrifying class to preserve its property values in blocks close to the arena is not one around which much mass support can be rallied in Brooklyn; and, meanwhile, Forest City Ratner has demonstrated a keen understanding of community politics in lining up support among representatives of the neighborhood's less affluent populations.

"It will grow the businesses in the blocks closest to us.

A few blocks closer and SDCC's corporate stamps become visible.

There was no parking in the two blocks closest to the stadium, since that area was overrun with snow.

Ms. Ehrmann did switch to a hardware store three blocks closer, but the stores are owned by cousins.

It is only near the southeastern border, in the blocks closest to Kissena Park, that drifting back in time seems almost possible.