But, if present trends continue, many other cities will have to find creative ways to use some very large and suddenly empty buildings.

ECONOMIST: The convention business

"In terms of a coach, he's very much glass half-empty rather than glass half-full, " said Mark Lawrenson, the former Liverpool defender.

WSJ: Roy Hodgson to Coach English National Team: England's 'Second Choice' Gets His Chance

All he had left when he got there was an empty truck and a very angry customer.

FORBES: Magazine Article

By the time I went to sit down, there were only three empty seats left at this very long table of perhaps sixty people.

FORBES: My Lunch With Lady Margaret Thatcher

It's all very sort of exciting, for the dead, empty cold of February.

WSJ: NFL Combine: Football Is Back! (Wait: Already?)��Jason Gay

Empty the crackers into a bowl and crush very finely.

NPR: Memorial Day Means It's Grilling Time!

It sounds very conventional satire but Ms Schoenle thrusts steel into her tale as she sends up the empty world of media folk addicted to sensation and lifestyle.

ECONOMIST: Post-wall German fiction

It was a very physical game, but in the last 10-15 minutes most players were running on empty out there.

BBC: Boss Dai Young says Blues won Cup 'the hard way'

Had Malskat not photographed the empty church walls before he started painting his murals, the evidence would have been suppressed by the very people who employed him.

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