portacabins

A mine bus took us off to the mine village -- it really is in the middle of nowhere, very flat, and all the workers are put up in portacabins, but they have a basic dining room where we had coffee.

North West Resources Tour Alex Allan 2009

It's now just a supply base for the oil-rigs offshore: nothing there at all except a strip from which they helicopter workers and equipment in and out, plus a few portacabins.

North West Resources Tour Alex Allan 2009

This was a massive place, including several buildings, numerous classrooms and endless portacabins, but which was summarily closed for three whole days when the boiler blew up and a thousand pipes cracked in glorious unison.

Archive 2005-11-01 Alistair Myles 2005

This was a massive place, including several buildings, numerous classrooms and endless portacabins, but which was summarily closed for three whole days when the boiler blew up and a thousand pipes cracked in glorious unison.

Pipe dreams Alistair Myles 2005

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images/Alamy 10.25am: A plaintive transfer day story from Ibrahim Yusuf: Sat in portacabins on a construction site in the middle of nowhere in Dubai hoping, just hoping Torres stays.

The Guardian World News Barney Ronay 2011

My 3 children are at a wonderful London state junior school that is now having its intake doubled in size with portacabins taking up most of the play area because of the number of immigrant children.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

The board also said the Bram Stoker Museum/Dracula Experience on the complex constituted an over-development of the site and found the use of shipping containers and portacabins for storage and signage for Bar Code contrary to proper planning.

An Irish Town Planner's Blog Brendan Buck 2010

Across the country, from directors in boardrooms to managers in small portacabins doubling as offices, all sectors of the economy are assessing what the impact of the cuts might be on their business.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Myself and the QM had one of those nice shiny yellow portacabins to sit in while we listened to the radio, counting home the drunk sailors one by one.

Army Rumour Service 2010

Facilities at the quarry location unit base, including portacabins, generators, lighting and security, were all sourced locally with all relevant supplier information provided by the Commission.

UK Regional Film and Television News 2010