• New offices are being built on the site.
• No new ships are being built at the yard now.
• Sales of cars built in the US are falling.
• a peasant's son who built an enormous business empire
• He built the company into one of the world's biggest jewelery concerns.
• The drugs company has built up a formidable sales force.
• The government has recently built up currency reserves by buying U.S.dollars.
• He said prosecutors had built a case based on circumstantial evidence (= evidence that can make you believe that something happened, but does not prove that it did ) .
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New offices were built downtown to house the company's headquarters.
»The city plans to build three new parking structures next to the airport.
»build cars/planes/machinery, etc.
build a website/network
»build a company/team/department
He moved to London where he built up a successful career in journalism.
Researchers have built a sophisticated computer program to search for answers.
Developers are testing the latest build for errors.
To say that we can get every build in the biggest school building project right first time is not realistic.
»Prices for new builds fell 3%.
He's heavier in build than his brother.
She is slight of build and very agile.
a small woman with a slim build