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  • Patterns are already emerging from the study: more died in summer when people were out and about, but relatively few people died in house fires because most lived in single-storey homes and could easily escape.

    The real Ophelia? 1569 coroner's report suggests Shakespeare link 2011

  • Patterns are already emerging from the study: more died in summer when people were out and about, but relatively few people died in house fires because most lived in single-storey homes and could easily escape.

    The real Ophelia? 1569 coroner's report suggests Shakespeare link 2011

  • A total of 88 patients were evacuated from the single-storey building in suburban Quakers Hill.

    Sydney nursing home fire leaves three dead 2011

  • Two old Chevys - a pickup and a Nova - sit in the driveway of the Loughner's tan single-storey house, where the backyard fence is aged and peeling and the front porch is littered with empty buckets of roofing tar.

    Neighbors: Jared Loughner and family quiet, kept to themselves Amy Gardner 2011

  • The brick houses and single-storey factories of the suburbs had disappeared completely below the drifting tides of silt.

    Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World 2010

  • The single-storey shop holds a story time on Saturdays, craft activities during the holidays and author events.

    Independent bookshops in London 2011

  • It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices."

    A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

  • Started with a D and was the biggest t room in the single-storey part of the lodge.

    Rio Hondo workshop klingonguy 2010

  • It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices."

    A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

  • The report warns that the town's problems are compounded by its predominant architectural style, which consists of largely single-storey dwellings, meaning that residents cannot simply go upstairs to avoid floodwaters.

    Climate change 'will wreak havoc on Britain's coastline by 2050' 2011

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