I FIRST came across the phrase a 'Huge Construction Site' in November 1999 during a tour of Germany sponsored by the government of that country.
The expression was used in an information pamphlet describing the city of Berlin which was then undergoing massive reconstruction aimed at giving it the infrastructural facilities befitting its status as capital of the newly united Germany.
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