"It was a little oasis in this busy commercial area," he said.

A lovely, well designed, green little oasis in the middle of a concrete jungle.

In the amount of time it takes a tourist to tune his car radio, the little oasis is gone.

It's just a nice building that offers its tenants a little oasis in the middle of the city.

"It has always been a friendly, relaxed lovely little oasis."

Inside, three steps across a patio, lies a pretty little oasis.

We call it an urban resort in its own little oasis.

I nod and smile at the thought of returning to our little oasis.

"So coming here, to this little oasis, is a real turn-around from the 9 to 5," she said.

Some are quite pretty in the spring and summer, little oases of wild flowers.