Sentences with phrase «surprisingly few houses»

For its size, the city inside Tell Beydar had surprisingly few houses: most of it consisted of a palace, rising like a fortress on the central, 20 - meter - high acropolis.

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Penguin Random House and a few other publishers surprisingly cancelled some excellent series to the horror of writers and fans alike.

It is great living with her little American Pit Bull Terrier Labrador Retriever mix sister and also bring a bigger dog she surprisingly very clean and took only a few days to completely house break I've had her since two months and was labeled as Boxer mix.

Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred Drury at the Henry Moore Institute; a visit to Henry Moore's house, studios, and now foundation at Perry Green, and most recently what I can only describe as a wonderfully insane lecture by the contemporary sculptor Thomas Houseago, which involved an increasingly drunk, cursing artist saying some surprisingly sincere, profound things about sculpture.

The race in Michigan's 6th congressional district between incumbent Republican Congressman Fred Upton and Democrat Paul Clements has become surprisingly close — with Clements trailing the chairman of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce by just a few points.

Not surprisingly, the storm's short - term impact on the housing market in September only tempered sales slightly in the third quarter by 5 percent (quarter over quarter), which translated to just 86 fewer closed sales than in the third quarter of 2016.

As casual as the furnishings are, the house takes a surprisingly dressed - up turn in its art and accessories, including a few English and Asian pieces.