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In the nature of things, there being no privacy to his one-roomed dwelling, he was tortured by a constant fear of theft.
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But the 35-year-old Bulinya, who lives alone with 10 of her 12 children -- six girls and four boys -- in a one-roomed grass-thatched house in the village of Nzoia, says her situation is intensified by a local belief that twins are cursed by a divine jinx.
Kenyan Mother Has SIX Sets Of Twins Curtis M. Wong 2011
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While Jane concentrated on breathing, Asher pointed out a couple of things to her—the crumbling remains of an old one-roomed schoolhouse from the pre-lake days when a settlement was built on the banks of the river.
One Season of Sunshine Julia London 2010
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In a one-roomed hut, high within the Arctic Circle, and only a little south of the ...
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Sirre Määttänen is a 30-year-old hospital cleaner who lives alone in a one-roomed apartment in Helsinki.
Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009
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She and her husband bought a one-roomed schoolhouse in the country, and he set about to renovate it into a three-story, five-bedroom house.
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As someone who was abruptly catapulted from one-roomed anonymity in Delhi's Ashoka Road to the chief minister's bungalow in Gandhinagar six years ago, Modi is an outsider to the Indian Establishment.
The battle ahead Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Sixty-year-old Zwane has to live in a one-roomed shack with her family of five as well as share four makeshift bucket toilets with around 200 of her neighbours.
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By this time we had reached the inn, a solitary tumble-down, one-roomed little hut without backyard or outbuildings; an emaciated dog lay curled up under the window; a hen was scratching in the dust under his very nose.
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The Amish response to the brutal slaying of five of their own offspring in an old fashioned, one-roomed school house was a blueprint for how President George Walker Bush should have responded to the slaughter of nearly 3,000 of our own citizens in the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
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