noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
single
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High-bay warehouses, as a single volume, can normally be considered as being single storey buildings.
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Around the village were scattered single storey dwellings with straw roofs and unpainted walls.
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The house was only single-storey , but expansive in the Moorish style, with serial white arches and terracotta tiles.
top
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A Lloyd's signal station was to occupy the top storey , but the offer was not taken up.
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The top storey had yielded nothing.
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The top storey has no openings and the order is in pilaster form.
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Water was soon cascading down the stairs from the top storey .
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Didn't we notice that her voice really wasn't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ?
upper
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There is a complex layout of these basement halls which were built to support the upper storey state apartments.
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The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent.
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The pathologist: Injuries consistent with a fall from an upper storey .
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The upper storey is in the form of a gallery for women which extends into the church.
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The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan.
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The nave is barrel vaulted and on its north side a staircase leads to the upper storey which has a round gallery.
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The long window of the upper storey was designed to throw the maximum light on the loom.
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The upper storey of 180 feet provided accommodation for the library, committee room and living quarters for the gardener.
■ NOUN
building
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The Pineta is a two storey building and all the bedrooms are served by a lift.
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It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.
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The authority insists that the two storey buildings are structurally sound and safe.
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The five storey building features a circular atrium topped by a stained glass dome.
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High-bay warehouses, as a single volume, can normally be considered as being single storey buildings .
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The two storey building has space for 300 of the college's students.
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A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged.
house
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Mrs. Burden who lived at number 70, another two storey house was quite a character.
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In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house .
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Detectives launched an enquiry after the body of Michael Chatfield was found as firemen fought a blaze in a three storey house .
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Where the trees ended we came to a wooden two-storey house with a low white paling.
■ VERB
build
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Dockbuild Limited also wants to build a three storey office development on the site.
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Work has started on a £17.6 million project to build a five storey office headquarters in Rochdale for Co-operative Retail Services.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Lloyd's signal station was to occupy the top storey , but the offer was not taken up.
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In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house.
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She had the first and second floor of a thin, dilapidated building that was a ruin above the third storey .
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The eastern half was a warehouse, a storey higher than the mill and built later, around 1890.
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The pathologist: Injuries consistent with a fall from an upper storey .
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The third storey of the town gaol was pierced by a doorway over which projected a beam.