1.   Ancient Romans built multistory apartment blocks, called an insula.

2.   Bilbao, with its grimy apartment blocks, warehouses and disquietingly dark river full of unidentified floating objects, is not.

3.   Entire apartment blocks and the Parliament building were ablaze, witnesses said, and casualties were described as heavy.

4.   Government officials warned that districts and even apartment blocks that voted for the opposition would have their upgradings postponed.

5.   It was followed by two blasts that destroyed apartment blocks in Moscow, and another in the southern Russian city of Volgodonsk.

6.   Now many Bucharest residents live in fear, especially of the packs prowling the massive apartment blocks.

7.   The contractors had built countless apartment blocks with sandy concrete and reinforcing rods far too weak to withstand the forces of nature that regularly shake the country.

8.   Well manicured lawns surround handsome apartment blocks.

9.   When she became ill and needed almost constant medical care, they moved to a larger apartment several blocks uptown, in the Beresford.

10.   Where once attractive apartment blocks stood, sunken buildings with curtains hanging limply in broken windows remain.