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The half-oval walls on either side enclose the space with 15 feet of sheer cement-block, the exact type used in parking garages, giving a bunker or unfinished basement quality.
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Ken Selody, a nurseryman at Atlock Farm in Somerset, N.J., works at a treated-lumber bench with a poured-concrete counter, for durability, and cement-block legs, for adjustability.
A Gardener's Furniture William L. Hamilton 2011
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APROSIFA's youth art program began in 2009 in a couple of cement-block rooms in the back of the clinic.
Beverly Bell: Haitian Renaissance: Youth Paint a New Country Beverly Bell 2011
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A recent military campaign in Mudiyah, a town of low-slung cement-block buildings in Abyan, showed the difficulty the government faces in keeping tribal support.
Tribal Ties Impede Yemen's War on al Qaeda Margaret Coker 2010
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APROSIFA's youth art program began in 2009 in a couple of cement-block rooms in the back of the clinic.
Beverly Bell: Haitian Renaissance: Youth Paint a New Country Beverly Bell 2011
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She hated being in her small, cement-block room alone and she hated the shapes and lines of her body.
Bridges 2010
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He leans on Ibarra for support on his way back down the cement-block corridor to his dressing room, where fighters and their entourages line the hallway.
Rampage 2008
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Graffiti and MS-13 gang signs smeared the first six feet or so of the grim cement-block structure.
Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010
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First, the sites that held most of the cement-block houses that were destroyed during the earthquake remain covered in hills of rubble, so much that no tent can be erected there.
Beverly Bell: Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti (The Urgency of Housing, Part IV) 2010
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First, the sites that held most of the cement-block houses that were destroyed during the earthquake remain covered in hills of rubble, so much that no tent can be erected there.
Beverly Bell: Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti (The Urgency of Housing, Part IV) 2010
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