• Suddenly, common areas become overwhelmed with impatient commuters packed into dim, low-ceilinged spaces, waiting and waiting.

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  • Even low-ceilinged restaurants can be prohibitive, leading to careful scrutiny of the club's meeting venues.

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  • La Maison du Lierre is a stylish budget option, with its shuttered exterior hiding high-ceilinged rooms with polished wooden floors.

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  • She demonstrated that, when people are in a high-ceilinged room, they're significantly better at seeing the connections between seemingly unrelated subjects.

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  • Seated in her high-ceilinged office in the grimy downtown Municipal Building, Stark says her job is to make Bolofsky's site unnecessary.

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  • The trading room itself is a low-ceilinged affair about the size of an average living room, with 13 computers lined up along three walls.

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  • One moment I could be immersed in the shadows of low-ceilinged rooms and the rich textures of brick walls and cobblestoned courts.

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  • Perurail has several classes of train, and the next-highest, the clear-ceilinged Vistadome, is more than comfortable for about a quarter the price.

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  • In a city where space is hard to come by, the high-ceilinged 5, 200-square-foot gallery is making the statement that Hong Kong is worth the investment.

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  • The rooms are high-ceilinged, but otherwise way down the luxury ladder.

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  • Here you will find Siolim House, an impeccably restored centuries-old home with seven high-ceilinged guest rooms all decked out in Goan antiques, four poster beds and terracotta tiles.

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  • He inspected the multitudinous low-ceilinged rooms of the ranch house.

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  • It is set inside a beautifully restored 1867 mansion - follow the sounds (and the snaking line) up the marble staircase to a high-ceilinged room with a long stage packed with musicians.

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  • That's a relief, because you certainly wouldn't want them haunting your cathedral-ceilinged bedroom, with its immense bed and wraparound folding doors, which open to a 270-degree vista of the sea.

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  • The church smelled of candle wax and wet plaster, and most of the space had been sectioned off with scaffolds, leaving a high-ceilinged room the size of a small cellar.

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  • Within the high-ceilinged rooms, with their battered colonial mantels and broken decorations of Adam designs in plaster, governors had come and gone, and ambassadors of kings had schemed and danced.

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  • It extends over four floors of spacious, high-ceilinged rooms.

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  • But it enables his descendants - two sons, two widowed sisters-in-law and their many children - to inhabit a luxurious house, with high-ceilinged rooms, three acres of grounds and out-buildings for servants.

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  • After the Cold War ended in 1989, artists colonised neighbourhoods such as Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg in eastern Berlin, drawn by the inexpensive rent and enormous, high-ceilinged apartments found in 19th-century buildings and unused department stores.

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  • In a stuffy, jam-packed and low-ceilinged room on the 52nd floor of the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the NFL and GE announced the launch of something called the Head Health Initiative.

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  • The sex world, as it were, converged for this three-day affair in a high-ceilinged hall tucked away in a corner of the sprawling Venetian Macao, which is touted as the largest casino on earth.

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  • In most airports, you are hustled off the plane and up stairs, down escalators, around corners, and along endless low-ceilinged, interior corridors before you have the privilege of standing in a line to show your passport.

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  • There has been much talk of late about Gessler we Francuskim, too, run by TV chef Adam Gessler since 2011, where bare plaster walls give an urban edge to an otherwise grand, high-ceilinged setting, with dark wood wainscotting, crisp white linen tablecloths and brass light fittings.

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  • The General occupies a high-ceilinged room furnished with a mahogany desk and conference table, video screens, flags, and wall-mounted maps. (He also maintains a smaller office at the U.S. Embassy in the International Zone, formerly known as the Green Zone, in central Baghdad.) When I visited him in late July, Petraeus seemed reflective, open, and at times even wistful about the approaching end of his third Iraq tour.

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