Sentence examples for built a second floor from inspiring English sources

"Some people built a second floor and leased that out, and others started shops or cottage industries on their plots of land," he told me recently.

WHEN Kent Oz, an investment banker, and Lisa Krasnowski, a flight attendant, built a second floor in their double-height studio in a fancy condominium building in Midtown Manhattan, they had room for their bed and bureau, but they were without a closet up there -- or a bathroom.

The Sheffield store built a second floor under the existing roof.

Last year he built a second floor onto his house and moved all his belongings upstairs.

The landlord of the building, Amrit Singh, who has fled, had also recently illegally built a fifth floor on the block.

Commissioned by Josep Batlló i Casanovas to renovate an existing building erected in 1875 by Emili Sala Cortés, Gaudí focused on the facade, the main floor, the patio and the roof, and built a fifth floor for the staff.

"You can only expand one of two ways: expropriate land for more streets, ripping up trees and waterways, or build a second floor for the highways".

For instance, a homeowner planning a master-bedroom addition in a one-level house might build a second floor with a separately controlled heating and cooling system rather than expand the one on the first floor.

They bought a three-bedroom house in Bronxville for $98,000 and, in 2005, took out a $350,000 mortgage to build a second floor for their son, Charles, 40, who has developmental disabilities on the autism spectrum.

It's listening to young women in coastal factories talking about sending half their salaries home to some village in Guangxi where perhaps it goes to build a second floor on a parental house.

Mrs. Gabbani built the two properties for a total of around $60,000; now she plans to build a second floor on top of each building for her two children.