Sentence examples for too dilapidated from inspiring English sources

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The government has plenty of crude oil, but its fuel-refining firm, NNPC, is too dilapidated to turn it into enough petrol to meet demand.

Food-vending carts were required to undergo inspection at the city's inspection station, in Maspeth, but many of the carts were too dilapidated to pass.

In one test, a middle-aged man whose jaw had become too dilapidated to bear false teeth had his gums packed with the pasty substance.

They should also be about the disruption to neighbourhoods, the heartache of being forced to leave a much-loved home, the possible adverse social consequences of dispersing vulnerable people, and so on (it's worth underlining here that the £3m Southwark council house had been too dilapidated for anyone to live in for years).

Although at one time during the 19th century St Mary's was too dilapidated to permit services to be held, repairs were carried out in the 19th century.

The Town of Greenwich acquired the property in 1973 and had full-time caretakers on the site until the lighthouse became too dilapidated in 2003.

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The House of Keys building in Castletown was described as too small, and "dilapidated with the wallpaper hanging off the wall".

"Twenty years ago, the buildings on Washington Street were dilapidated and decaying, too," Mr. Brilvitch said.

Yet as two recent reports demonstrate, for many LGBT people specifically LGBT people of color and elders this quest for home routinely comes up against a housing supply that's dilapidated, stretched thin, too expensive and far removed from the cities and neighborhoods we deserve to inhabit.

Clinics are understaffed and dilapidated and often too far to walk to from their villages.

The new city has city problems too: housing shortages, crime waves, pollution; dilapidated "first ring" suburbs are said to be in the throes of a full-fledged "urban crisis".

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