Example sentences for: tenements

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  • To determine if airborne microorganisms can be inactivated, and therefore, prevent infection transmission, studies during the 1940's-1970's used ultraviolet germicidal irradation (UVGI) to inactivated airborne microorganisms under experimental conditions [ 19 20 21 22 ] and reduced airborne infections in a number of settings, such as hospitals [ 23 ] , military housing [ 24 ] , and classrooms [ 25 ] . However, UVGI was not effective against the highly contagious measles virus when children had extensive contact in buses and crowded tenements [ 26 27 ] . Thus, it fell into disfavor and has not been extensively employed nor has it been studied using molecular methods of detecting its efficacy.

  • "Only the electric sign of the Jewish Daily Forward , burning high over the tenements of the East Side," he writes, "suddenly stilled the riot in my heart."

  • The tenements of the Old Town and Georgian buildings of the New Town are still in residential use, with a range of stores, restaurants, pubs, and theaters sustaining the population.

  • Complete districts from that time are still in place, replete with multi-story houses (called tenements or “lands”), churches, taverns, and tollhouses.

  • Within ten years of the Young Pretender’s occupation of Holyrood, Edinburgh’s town council proposed a plan to relieve the chronic overcrowding of the Royal Mile tenements by constructing a New Town on land to the north of the castle.


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