Sentence examples for storey from inspiring English sources

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storey

noun

A building; an edifice.

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At the other, a structure, clearly inspired (I use the word loosely) by the Parthenon hovers a storey or so above the ground.

The tower was a popular tourist destination and every weekend hundreds of people paid to go up to the viewing platform on its eighth storey.

On 24 February 2015, mounted police, live television crews, protestors and crowds of onlookers surrounded a building called the Bungehuis, a six storey art deco style construction that currently houses the University of Amsterdam's humanities faculty.

Among the policies it advocates are: local authorities should make land available for a 3% growth in house building each year; planning rules should allow homeowners to build another storey with no formal permission; for-profit companies should be able to run state schools; and state loans should be available for childcare and post-graduate education.

Storey said it was likely that Ellahi braked when he saw the three other teenagers in the road, swerved to miss this group and ended up hitting the other two girls.

The DUP minister Mervyn Storey accused Sinn Féin and the SDLP of reneging on the cross-party Stormont house agreement made in December when it appeared there was a consensus on tackling welfare.

Storey said: "They want, like Pontius Pilate, to wring their hands, to almost cleanse their consciences that somehow they had not signed the dotted line.

Storey has also campaigned for a creationist explanation to be erected alongside the scientific one for the existence of the ancient Giant's Causeway rock formation on the scenic north Antrim coast.

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As a further insult, London bristles with two-storey Victorian terraces that are a wildly inefficient use of such coveted space.

'You hear the phrase "social cleansing" being used – and that's exactly what this is' Now, they are talking about demolishing this estate and building a 25-storey tower, all private apartments, with 120 low-rise "affordable housing" units around it.

Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads "Business centre".

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