• Glassy buildings glint in the hot sun, as cranes and foreign construction-workers line the shores of Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya's first and second cities, where stretches of sand stood empty a few years ago.

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  • On a recent day, Ontario resident Dennis Glassco sat in a mostly empty terminal waiting for a United flight to Houston, his belongings spread across a row of empty chairs.

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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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  • Sixty times a second the buckets empty through a diode that converts the photons to electric charges.

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  • The disks transmit a signal to a server that either the space is empty or a driver has paid to park there.

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  • They are a major presence in this strange, empty movie, a metaphysical Cracker Jack box without a prize in its empty-calorie depths.

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  • In other photos, a wreath in the shape of a Christmas tree dangles above highway construction, and a "Happy Holidays" banner casts its shadow on a highway empty except for a single truck.

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

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  • And while a rejuvenated Bristol are breathing the rarefied air of the Premiership, Evans could be rattling round a half-empty Stoop, a fallen squire cursing the cruel realities of the modern game.

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  • Mr Miller was referring to the old Shepherd's Hotel in the Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah, a long-empty building that a Jewish-American developer has bought and proposes to turn into apartments for Jewish settlers.

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  • The center court stands were half-empty on a cloudy, mild day for Azarenka's match.

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  • It remained empty for a period but was let by him earlier this year.

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  • The final bill passed in nearly empty chambers a couple of days before Christmas.

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  • Police found an empty alcohol container and a half empty blueberry moonshine bottle in his backpack.

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  • It has been empty since a housing estate was demolished in 2007 as part of a government-funded programme.

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  • Jersey Water warned in November that islanders could face water restrictions with reservoirs two thirds empty following a dry spell.

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  • At the waterfront, the swimming pool, empty for a decade has reopened after a paint and drain job, and a restaurant is doing a booming trade.

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  • He said properties left empty for a long time often attracted "vandalism and fly tipping and drag down the value of the properties all around them".

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  • He drops off the moment he closes his eyes, he sleeps soundly until morning, and when he wakes up, his head is as empty as a jug.

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  • New York office tower, which is slated to be empty in a few years, according to a notice sent out by Sony's real-estate advisers at Eastdil Secured LLC.

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  • Retail analysts like Experian's Jonathan De Mello say this gloomy picture will persist for at least the next year - which means many shops are likely to stay empty for a long time to come.

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  • As well as the changes to business rates relief, the act has given local authorities the power to increase the council tax on homes that have been empty for a year or more by up to 100%.

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  • As well as the changes to business rates relief, the bill will give local authorities the power to increase the council tax on homes that have been empty for a year or more by up to 100%.

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  • Yet on Friday and Saturday nights the past two winters, the Wigwam has sat empty, a relic of more prosperous days when General Motors fueled the local economy and Anderson season tickets were passed down through the generations.

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  • They think it promotes a certain amount of showboating and people taking the stage, essentially, in a virtually empty chamber to make a speech that's intended not for anyone else to hear but just people back in their home district.

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  • He is expected to stress there are no plans to change the rules on council tax relief available for "special circumstances", such as homes left empty after a person has moved into a hospital or care home, or has died.

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  • In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).

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  • This was my life, these were the times when I was true: in these half hours here and there when I felt alone in the house, or those fleeting moments out on the road, when I opened a gate and crossed an empty farmyard, a stranger, even to myself, in the quiet of the afternoon.

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  • Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.

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  • When Clinton spoke briefly in the Rose Garden after the vote, he looked, finally, grief stricken and empty, like a mourner left alone with the empty Jell-O molds and casserole dishes after the funeral.

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