Example sentences of "empty for several " in BNC.

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1 Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home .
2 Right on the Brown Street corner was The Round of Beef public house which was closed by Eldridge Pope & Co. , the Dorchester Brewers in 1926 when it remained empty for several years .
3 These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up .
4 The flats will have to stay empty for several weeks
5 The gallery has been empty for several years .
6 It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised .
7 A third of its beds have been empty for several years .
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