Example sentences of "had been empty for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 2 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 5 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 6 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 9 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 10 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |