Example sentences of "been empty for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 2 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 3 | You know how it is , when a place has been empty for long . |
| 4 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 5 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 6 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 7 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 8 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 9 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 10 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 11 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 12 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 13 | Half the vacant land in the study area had been empty for at least two years and , on the likely level of public and private resources , the consultants predicted that three-quarters would still be vacant in 1980 , five years after their survey . |
| 14 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 15 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 16 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 17 | She says some have been empty for years and she wants to live in one . |
| 18 | Two Police houses have been empty for five years after officers moved out because of attacks . |
| 19 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 20 | Riddel 's Warehouse , Ann Street , ( 1867 ) : blighted by proximity to police station , has been empty for many years . |
| 21 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 22 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 23 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 24 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 25 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 26 | As I see him sitting there now , sheltered under a derelict building 's covered way , one which has been empty for a tedious never-ending era , with an unchangeable lifestyle , erected for nothing but with such a prospect for life , if used properly . |
| 27 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 28 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 29 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |