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A fire swept through a two-storey private rehabilitation centre for addicts in a poor part of Peru's capital on Saturday, killing 27 people and critically injuring five as firefighters punched holes through walls to rescue residents locked inside.
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In engineering, a dull light, as gray and flickery as a cloudy sky before a storm, suffused the two-storey chamber and the long flattened cylinder of the main engine.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Walter's wife Winnie, 75 and no longer inclined or able to string together more than the occasional sentence, still lives in South Bank, in a two-storey brick house overlooked by the looming grey silhouettes of now-redundant industrial architecture.
Britain's not working Amelia Gentleman 2010
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Next to the Mansión de don Aurelio Ibarra (# 15) is don Aurelio's old, two-storey mercantile building, built at the end of the last century.
El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona 2009
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Hacker wrote that Michael had been shot while manning a two-storey observation tower.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth' Jamie Doward 2010
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Built on a restricted site, scarred by fire and unstable geologic conditions, this modern two-storey house features a minimalist interior on a backdrop of white and large windows for natural light.
Shell-Wheeler House : A Sustainable Private Residence by Johnston Architects 2009
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But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired.
Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation Amit Chaudhuri 2010
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Orlando stalks round from the back door to the driveway of the house, a two-storey family home in disrepair.
Whatever the Fuck You Want Hal Duncan 2010
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Made from light-grey zinc foil wraps and featuring some colourfully glazed projections, the generously proportioned house adds a tinge of contemporary functionality to a two-storey building house.
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It appears that the sniper believed Michael was on the ground, not in a prominent position on top of a two-storey building where he would regularly rotate with his fellow observers as they scanned the ground around them.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth' Jamie Doward 2010
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