By some twist of luck, she had a brother who was out of town, who happened to have an empty apartment near the Bastille.

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He had an empty apartment: a treadmill, a TV, and a mattress.

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For trips lasting more than three nights, a couple can save 40 to 60 percent booking an empty apartment or a condo with a kitchen, instead of a hotel room.

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In fact, the bomb landed about a mile away, destroying an empty high-rise apartment block.

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Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.

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In the Ural Mountains, officials have threatened to confiscate children because a family's apartment is sparsely furnished, or the refrigerator is empty, one news site reported.

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He lived with his mother in the new four-story yellow-brick apartment house built three years earlier on the large empty lot near the corner of Chancellor and Summit, diagonally across from the grade school.

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The spokesman said agents found that the apartment, in the Harburg suburb of Hamburg, has been empty since February.

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The paintings were for Kozlowski's Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan, but he shipped the art (or empty boxes) to Exeter, N.

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