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corrugated-iron

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  • Rupa, a four-month-old girl, has not had the best start in life; she lives in a small one-room home made of brick and corrugated-iron sheets with her sickly mother and father in Modhubag, a slum in the centre of Dhaka.

    Poor nutrition stunts growth of nearly half of under-fives in Bangladesh 2012

  • Thus you have corrugated iron, but a corrugated-iron roof.

    2009 January « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Among the handmade mud-brick houses, their corrugated-iron roofs glistening in the midday sun, groups of young men congregate.

    Escaping life as a 'call boy' 2011

  • Gus drives past dilapidated shacks with corrugated-iron roofs, huddles of thin brown cows, and fields of banana plants, their bunches of fruit cradled in bright-blue plastic bags.

    The Snatchback 2009

  • Gus drives past dilapidated shacks with corrugated-iron roofs, huddles of thin brown cows, and fields of banana plants, their bunches of fruit cradled in bright-blue plastic bags.

    The Snatchback 2009

  • Chile: Harrington B&B, ValparaísoWith its sunny yellow frontage, Victorian features and corrugated-iron panelling, this 1920s house is typically "Valpo".

    South America: Perfect posadas Vicky Baker 2010

  • Thus you have corrugated iron, but a corrugated-iron roof.

    (Almost) Zero Tolerance, and linearly separable blogrolls « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Both ended up in Blikkiesdorp, a settlement of corrugated-iron shacks ringed by a concrete fence, home to hundreds of evicted families.

    In preparation for World Cup, the poor in Cape Town are being relocated 2010

  • Along the sides of the raised road on which the bus traveled, the tea-colored water reached up to the bottom of corrugated-iron roofs.

    Waterworld 2008

  • Along the sides of the raised road on which the bus traveled, the tea-colored water reached up to the bottom of corrugated-iron roofs.

    Waterworld 2008

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