Had I gone at 17 I have no doubt I would have been staying in a down-at-heel guest house. |
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The rattling, down-at-heel, overcrowded buildings pleased me better than any grassy quad or lancet window. |
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Alex Wilson, who worked for Nugget when he first came to the Centre, was a short man, 1.6 metres tall with his down-at-heel boots on. |
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Now he lives in Maryland, a teeming, traffic-choked and down-at-heel suburb of Africa's largest city, Lagos. |
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Take Sasha and Lena, a young couple living in a typically down-at-heel housing estate on the outskirts of Moscow. |
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But a far larger slice of her area is in Oakland, the down-at-heel industrial city overshadowed by San Francisco across the bay. |
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That down-at-heel seaside town decided in 1977 that gambling would be its salvation. |
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Like Blackpool or Brighton, Coney Island has that down-at-heel atmosphere of a resort whose time has gone. |
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In the film, Reeves plays a luckless, down-at-heel gambler heavily in debt to the bookies. |
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A bunch of largely down-at-heel passengers, who had got off with us, searched for a lift that was working. |
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As always these days, Clint's character, a down-at-heel boxing trainer, is old and past it. |
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Craig and Craig is a bold building both inside and out forging a new initiative in what is essentially a shabby and down-at-heel area. |
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There is not a plush boutique or trendy bar to be seen, and the architecture is down-at-heel. |
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Britain's inner city chroniclers are more chip shop than champagne, but this down-at-heel feel has more of an edge. |
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If that conjures up an image of a rather down-at-heel East End hall, then think again. |
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Vince Vaughn is Peter, a likeable slacker who runs the down-at-heel Average Joe's Gym. |
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It is just the kind of place where drunks, junkies and the down-at-heel find a warm spot to spend the night. |
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Today Tesco and Sainsbury's local stores are helping to bring up some down-at-heel neighbourhoods. |
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The loss of 550 jobs in the down-at-heel Kent seaside town, reducing Hornby to a suite of administrative offices and an echoingly empty factory shed, was a bitter blow. |
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Gone is the old and somewhat down-at-heel air of the theatre of yesterday. |
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He was spending the summer with his great-uncle and cousins on the outskirts of a down-at-heel Mississippi community inappropriately called Money. |
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On closer inspection, however, they look decidedly scruffy and down-at-heel, surrounded by deeply potholed, rubbish-strewn streets. |
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They have kept it in sparkling condition, and primped some slightly down-at-heel rooms with subtle redecoration. |
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Yet the down-at-heel conurbation enjoys one institutional advantage. |
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A narrow corridor led to a pleasingly down-at-heel hamburger joint. |
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The atmosphere was that of a day out at a down-at-heel fairground. |
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It used to be a down-at-heel city with little going for it. |
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This can only be interpreted as an expression of total incompetence on the part of the Commission and as a lack of will in a system characterised by a down-at-heel administrative culture. |
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Both are better bets than the rather down-at-heel Caruso Belvedere. |
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Some were repellently shabby, with loose, stained suit jackets and down-at-heel black leather shoes, other with the shine of prosperity, plump in spotless waistcoats. |
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