Sentence examples for first apartment block from inspiring English sources

With his brothers, Gustave and Claude, he built (1903) at 25 rue Franklin, Paris, what was probably the first apartment block designed for reinforced-concrete construction.

But he moved directly into the range of a second submachine gun nest on the third floor of another apartment block, and was subsequently gunned down.

Also, I'm on the first floor of an apartment block - the flood levels would have to have been 15 feet high before they could reach me!

On the second floor of an apartment block, Nawal Asfour is waiting for news of her son, Ahmad.

Michèle Audin was three years old and fast asleep with her two younger siblings when French paratroopers burst into her family's flat on the third floor of an apartment block in Algiers and dragged her father away.

Its 24 colourful rooms (£66 B&B) with chandeliers, parquet floor and beautiful quilts, take up the fifth-floor of an apartment block in downtown Cairo and, along with decadent salons and a dining room, are accessed by an old wrought-iron lift.

A burglar in China had to be rescued after getting stuck trying to climb through a small window on the fifth floor of an apartment block.

On roughly the ninth floor of an apartment block, I stepped into one of the rooms to admire the view of the sea.

On roughly the ninth floor of an apartment block, I stepped into one of the rooms to admire the sea view from the window.

We had reached the fourth floor of an apartment block in downtown Mexico City, where 60-year-old Doña Norma (not her real name) lives with three of her grandsons (aged six, four, and one).

We had reached the fourth floor of an apartment block in downtown Mexico City, where 60-year-old Doña Norma (not her real name) lives with three of her grandsons (aged 6, 4 and one).