Sentence examples for gigantic estates from inspiring English sources

Then, in the 1960s, the remaining residents were turfed out as Sayer Street was demolished, chewed up by the Heygate Estate – a council housing development that was originally conceived as one of three gigantic estates stretching from Elephant to Peckham, linked by walkways and ramps for two miles.

However, most of Bloomberg's worldview is precisely that of someone who does good things as a favor rather than a duty, and can hire a helicopter to whisk him off to a gigantic estate in Bermuda whenever the burden of omnipotence in New York spoils his afternoon.

She sees a gigantic real estate conspiracy - Hurd's uncle no doubt was chairman of a real estate association, his mother a popular real estate agent, his brother in Wall St. owned 12 brownstones in the W. Village alone.

A city is not a gigantic housing estate.

He also warned of "a gigantic real estate bubble" inflated by reckless lenders, encouraging homeowners to remortgage and offering interest-only deals.

Despite the fact that he was in need of an operation and in severe time, he was able to direct quite capably all the operations of this gigantic real estate deal.

This will roast the many thinly-capitalized speculators who have bet the ranch on further gigantic real estate appreciation.

Hitler's real crisis at the time was also about a gigantic real estate loss: the loss of all those territories he had conquered fuelled by false credit and driven by avarice, megalomania and extreme ruthlessness.

Economic reforms since the late 1960s have created new wealth, which, in turn, has sharpened the differences between the more ostentatious lifestyle of the new middle classes whose privileged members are able to build second homes in the Buda Hills and on Lake Balaton and that of the workers who populate the gigantic, faceless housing estates of the drab outlying residential districts.

(buyassociation.co.uk) WHAT THE MOVIES SAY The entire area is one gigantic, labyrinthine housing estate – all graffiti-covered walls, underlit walkways and boarded-up windows.

The fish traveled in tanks pulled by horse cart or train, or they were towed up the Volga in cages and then stocked in gigantic ponds on country estates.