Sentence examples for state of repairs from inspiring English sources

"$1 Billion Later, Subway Elevators Still Fail" (front page, May 19) picks up where "The State of Repairs," a 2006 report by the Manhattan borough president, left off.

It seems to have been in a poor state of repair and overloaded.

Part of the argument for redevelopment was that the buildings had fallen into such a sorry state of repair.

The most often cited criticism of the country's electrical grid, after all, is its fragile state of repair.

Nusrat Faizullah, chief executive of the British Council for School Environments, said many schools were in a worse state of repair than 10 years ago.

What struck me, as a boy who had found the whole conflict amazingly exciting, was its state of repair.

Some critics said it was in a "dangerous" state of repair, while others argued it was fit to move again.

Vessels were either overloaded and unstable, or were in such a poor state of repair that they inevitably sank.

Today a traditional cottage, depending on size, state of repair and location, would range from 100,000 to 400,000, he estimated.

The EAC enquiry forced the government to publish a previously withheld report which showed that the state of repair of flood defences fell as funding was cut.

He said: "This is in a poor state of repair and it needs to be refurbished but none of the vehicles here will go.