Abruptly his left hand slid into a gap where a tile was missing.

Flies in basement, old food and dust on basement floor, celiling tiles missing.

Fourteen natural-color tiles were missing from the other set.

Often in an old bathroom, only a few tiles are missing.

One tile in the nose was missing and "it looked like it was popped off by the impact of something," he said.

A television survey of its exterior showed one heat-shielding tile missing; it was lost in the launching last Tuesday.

As of January 2009 further repairs were needed, especially to the casino dome which had tiles missing and was leaking.

Patches of paint peeled from walls and ceiling, and here and there a tile was missing.

The roof on the library is gray-green, and tiles are missing on the west wing, where the ceiling leaks.

The roof was sound although a few tiles were missing and rain leaked in here and there, but that did not matter.