• Hyeonduk Seunim gestured us into a spare, empty room with a low table at the centre.

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  • Despite fears that Las Vegas would suffer from an excess of new hotels, a torrent of visitors left not a single room empty for a single day at MGM Grand's namesake casino-hotel in the second quarter.

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  • Picture this: a stately room full of empty chairs set up two rows deep in a semi circle.

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  • When the silence of an empty room ignites a visceral impending doom reaction, challenge why you shudder out of terror.

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  • And certainly nothing even close to what Zuckerberg built from a dorm room littered with empty beer cans and sweaty gym socks (that last part is unconfirmed).

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  • Between television programmes, viewers can watch an empty room, into which a man walks, picks up a guitar, strums a few clumsy chords and walks out again.

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  • His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.

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  • Even so, the maitre d' insisted that bar patrons not walk through the empty dining room and instead use a hallway skirting the area -- a hint as to what kind of atmosphere the hotel tries to maintain.

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  • Empty middle seats that might provide a little more room have vanished.

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  • It sounded like a typical soundcheck, but I looked across the empty room to see that Kidjo was dancing her way through it, full-on.

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  • Airlines keep shrinking the size of seats to stuff more people onto planes, those empty middle seats that once provided a little more room are now occupied and more people with tickets are being turned away because flights are overbooked.

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  • The girl with the soda snapped a few photographs of the reception area and the empty conference room next to it and signed the guest book.

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  • Bonhams' Montgomery recently visited a client whose living room wall was hung with six empty 16th-and 17th-century Spanish and Italian "tabernacle" frames, which are particularly complex and architectural.

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  • We have a prime minister outside the room looking in at Britain's empty seat at the table.

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  • In the empty room stood the tangled metal wreck of what was once a four-poster bed.

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  • Add in a guarantee of fast, attentive service in an empty, beautifully minimalist dining room, and the place becomes an anti-destination destination.

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  • Banish any images of rock legend: forget about dissipated drummers slumped in a junkie haze in some stadium locker room, forget roadies hurling televisions and empty bottles of Jack Daniels from hotel balconies into the pool.

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  • The room is now almost empty and Petraeus stops to give this comment to a reporter.

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  • On a recent afternoon, Mr. Collins pointed out the library, game room, swimming pool and tiny, empty fitness room.

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  • As the Yankees have brought in one flawed player after another in attempts to fill the void, Rodriguez's empty locker has served as a stark reminder that 2013 is a year more about who isn't in the room, than about those who are.

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