This was an accelerated out-migration to the suburbs and countryside which resulted in many empty houses in the city despite their perfect state of condition after renovation.
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Heirloom, though, is a particularly powerful adjective, conjuring visions of turn-of-the-century gardeners cultivating tomatoes in a sunny backyard until they reach the perfect state of sweet juiciness.
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The albums include etchings and engravings in a near-perfect state of preservation by Italian, Dutch, and Flemish printmakers, including Jacques Callot, Jusepe de Ribera, and Adriaen van Ostade.
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The Museum is small; however keeps a collection of more than 800 items, many in perfect state of conservation and cleverly distributed pursuant to museographer Jorge Carrandi layout.
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In 1962 the chapel was described as being " in a perfect state of preservation and beautifully decorated, and is equipped with modern lighting and heating arrangements ".
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Observing it to be of giant size, and in a perfect state of preservation, a strange fancy seized me of having it set and mounted as a drinking cup.
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When all the seats had been filled and the carefully planned service begun, that church seemed in a nearly perfect state of equipoise between sincere grief and frank ambition.
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Two seals from the signet ring of another biblical Jewish king, Hezekiah, have been found, but unlike that of King Ahaz they are not in a perfect state of preservation.
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But the Paris branch of the environmental group wasn't impressed : It demanded Saturday that the French government first restore the vessels to a " perfect state of seaworthiness ."
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The skeleton was found in near perfect state due to the exclusion of air from the sarcophagus . " The coffin is now preserved in Burford churchyard, near the west gate.