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  • The family home feels like a bomb-site, especially if kids are involved.

    Leo Averbach: Divorce: Earthquake or Volcano? Leo Averbach 2011

  • So all I can go is go back to my bomb-site office (as seen in photo above), bury myself once more in those piles of antiquarian literature, and hope and pray that no-one else comes up with a novel reidentification of a group supposedly represented by lots of scrappy British fossils.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • According to those who have read it, the report says that the bomb-site evidence was "a mess" when it arrived at Quantico, Va., and that the lab then compounded the problem by storing other explosives in the same room with the Oklahoma City debris.

    Under The Microscope 2008

  • Whitehurst argued that the bomb-site samples were contaminated by ruptured sewer pipes-and surreptitiously created a phony sample from his own urine and acetone.

    One Fed's War On The Fbi 2008

  • The levy, nicknamed the "bomb-site Britain tax" as landlords scrapped projects and even demolished buildings to avoid payments, raised almost £800m in extra rates that year alone.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • He tilted his lens towards everything from the era's bomb-site reconstruction to its political graffiti daubed across walls east of the City and north of the Thames, the area traditionally considered to be the East End.

    The Independent - UK RSS Feed 2010

  • He tilted his lens towards everything from the era's bomb-site reconstruction to its political graffiti daubed across walls east of the City and north of the Thames, the area traditionally considered to be the East End.

    The Independent - UK RSS Feed 2010

  • Sure there's steel and glass McRegeneration including the Bundestag and all around Potsdamer Platz, but even within a few blocks you're back in the middle of faceless, brooding, old grey stone and then suddenly an empty bomb-site or two and shiny post-war cubes for the glorious proletariat.

    British Blogs 2008

  • Sure there's steel and glass McRegeneration including the Bundestag and all around Potsdamer Platz, but even within a few blocks you're back in the middle of faceless, brooding, old grey stone and then suddenly an empty bomb-site or two and shiny post-war cubes for the glorious proletariat.

    British Blogs 2008

  • 30-Minute Meals was widely reviled for having recipes taking more than an hour and leaving the kitchen like a bomb-site.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Aileen Reid 2011

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