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The ... windows of the house seemed to indicate that it had been derelict for a long time.
semi-detached
bustling
boarded-up
downtown
Jackie lives on the fourth floor of a... in London's West End.
bungalow
terraced house
detached house
block of flats
The mayor’s ... is an imposing two-storey house set on a hill above the town.
residence
sky-scraper
allotment
bungalow
People put th e ir rubbish bins out into the narrow ... which runs behind the row of houses.
by-pass
dead-end
alley
ring road
The inhabitants were forced to... their homeland because of the civil war.
uproot
condemn
integrate
flee
The Greek islands experience ... of tourists every summer and this year is no different with more than one million visitors expected.
an incidence
an influx
a build-up
an underpass
The majority of Mumbai’s population live in overcrowded, congested... in conditions of extreme poverty.
grounds
slums
quotas
council housing
The town plays host to ... market every Saturday morning, with farmers from the surrounding countryside bringing their produce to be sold in town.
a bustling
an infectious
a condemned
a residential
You will find the stockbrokers’ offices in the city’s central ... district.
industrial
business
rural
provincial
They say that even the police hesitate before entering some of the city’s most lawless...
ghettoes
allotments
crowds
suburbs
In most British cities, the council ... cheap accommodation for families on low-incomes.
equalises
resides
degrades
provides
Locally elected representatives to the city council ... in the future development of our urban areas.
seek asylum
are left out of the main stream
play a pivotal role
lead to bottlenecks
The council voted to build ..., so that traffic can go around instead of through the middle of the town.
a by-pass
an underpass
an estate
a flyover
... areas tend to have high crime rates, unemployment and a host of other social problems.
Retirement
Inner-city
Residential
Condemned
On his first day in the Milanese office, the German executive experienced ... on the part of the employees in the office, who saw him as a threat.
equality
degradation
hostility
inadequacy
I use a ... scheme to get to work every day - on Mondays and Wednesdays, I take two of my colleagues to work and on the other days, they drive me.
park-and-ride
traffic calming
car-pooling
retail
