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  • Using Google's AdWords system, Primakabin purchased keywords including "portakabin," and misspelled variants such as "portacabin," to drive users to its own site when they searched for its competitor.

    ClickZ News 2010

  • And then the unforgettable second experience that day was when we were trying to get away from the rush of debris as the second tower came down, and we took refuge in a little portakabin.

    The Archbishop on Understanding Prayer 2009

  • A group of us had come out, and we had with us some very distressed pre-school children who'd been at a crèche in the same building (we were getting them away with us) and in the portakabin there was a workman.

    The Archbishop on Understanding Prayer 2009

  • Now compared to those choices, the idea of a room in a portakabin does sound better.

    11 « November « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • Now compared to those choices, the idea of a room in a portakabin does sound better.

    Housing « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • My colleagues in the portakabin producing the superb Daily Hayly - dubbed Tom's Cabin after Review and Hayly Editor Tom Horan - were taking the mickey out of my tweet yesterday that a form of unexpected Badger Mania was in play at Hay.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • I wouldnt expect people to live in a portakabin deep in the countryside with 7 others just to survive on meagre wages but then again i'm not a tory and I pay my staff a living wage. @scampy2, it's people with your thinly veiled racist views that Cameron is trying to rally.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Not just a little bit either - I'm sitting in my portakabin at work wondering if I'll get out of here tonight; it's showing no signs of stopping.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Just fill the ends with portakabin bogs, and it'll be just like home.

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

  • I shall not venture to enquire about the Intelligence Corps ratio of kills vs the number of engagements with car footwells and portakabin walls.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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