1.   Dogs bark from the open windows of crumbling apartments.

2.   Most can stay for free in their crumbling apartments, but they get little else by way of benefits.

3.   My mother was left with two children in a crumbling apartment.

4.   Snezhnogorsk is just northwest of Murmansk, a city of half a million inhabitants and endless crumbling apartment blocks.

5.   He lives with his wife in a crumbling apartment, without central heating or hot water, but with lots of cobwebs.