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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.

    THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • In a one-roomed hut, high within the Arctic Circle, and only a little south of the ...

    2010 January | Scary For Kids 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    My wardrobe malfunction « knitnut.net 2008

  • 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

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • 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.

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • 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.

    If Only George Bush Had Been Amish 2006

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