Sentence examples for the bleak area from inspiring English sources

To upgrade the bleak area, "I needed Woodward's and 200 units of social housing," recalled Mr. Green, who is now a consultant.

A recent Employment Service survey estimated that, in the bleakest areas, half of the unemployed had no formal qualifications, 27% had been out of work for more than six years and 30% had criminal records.

Thirty years ago, the property that makes up the Capital Center District was a bleak area where commuters could park their cars for as little as $3.50 a day.

GAZA, 26 January 2005 - The family of three-year-old Rahma Ibrahim abu Shamas ekes out a miserable existence in a bleak area of the central Gaza Strip known as al-Birka.

A similar commitment was crucial to Spinnaker Real Estate Partners' redevelopment efforts in South Norwalk, where officials conceived an urban renewal plan for a formerly bleak area well before the term smart growth caught hold.

Rose is a 30-year-old English woman who travels to America in search of the mysterious Dr Wheeler, whom she knew as a child growing up in the bleak, coastal area of the north-west familiar from Bainbridge's early novels.

And I like bleakness, because I grew up in a bleak area," he said.

It is a bleak area with just a bar by the crossroads.

This bleak area is tiny enough to allow people on either side to converse by bullhorn.

West Baltimore is an exceptionally bleak area in an exceptionally poor, overwhelmingly black American city.

This is still a bleak area for too many new dealers.