Sentence examples for miniature community from inspiring English sources

The English translation of "Toby Alone," by the French playwright Timothée de Fombelle, has won the Marsh award for best children's literature in translation; the story follows the adventures of a miniature community that lives in an oak tree.

It is flanked by well-sited shingle and stucco houses and duplexes built later by other architects, whose tile roofs and balconies help to unify a miniature community that affords rare privacy to its residents.

The translation of Timothée de Fombelle's Toby Alone, in which an entire miniature community lives in the branches of an oak tree, beat Mankell's story of a motherless boy who becomes a local hero, When the Snow Fell, to win the Marsh award for children's literature in translation this evening.

We wanted to live in this picture-perfect miniature community where the locals are all crazy but know who you're in love with before you do, where the grocery is run by an old grump called Taylor Doose and the diner is run by a handsome grump called Luke, and every week the village green hosts some eccentric kind of festival, such as a 24-hour knitathon.

As that happens, a miniature community will form, and these people will be able to start support groups, foundations, and clinical trials.

Each of these miniature communities is known as a microbiome.

Melbourne is a miniature global community - the perfect example of multiculturalism and globalisation.

Tells about Ken and Lisa's loft, in Tribeca which is furnished with a great many unusual items; the party took place there There were about 40 guests which included members of both the art & the miniature golf communities.

The campus resembled a miniature hippie commune.

Lewis runs the House of Dance and Feathers, a miniature museum of New Orleans community culture dedicated to the marching groups that form parades for occasions such as Mardi Gras.

My final stop was at the home of Ursula and Nilo Mitra, who live on Pomander Walk, a 1920's gated community of miniature Tudor row houses lining a blocklong pedestrians-only alley that runs from 94th Street to 95th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue.