Although suburbs such as Morningside in the south would be built later, the change was irrevocable – within 50 years, Edinburgh's wealthiest residents had almost entirely deserted the Old for the New Town.
On Monday, for the first time in a week, life in the capital returned to something like normal, with many businesses reopening and traffic back on streets that had been almost deserted.
By now the very conservative wing has almost completely deserted to the Republican Party.
At the same time, the 2010 cohort has almost entirely deserted the party, alienated by the government's approach to a number of touchstone issues.
With a later abrupt increase in aridity, agricultural land-use decreased from ∼ 8 to ∼ 3.6 ka BP, when the area appears to have been almost deserted.
It was one of a series of activities intended to draw people back to the heart of the city, which has been almost deserted since former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in mid-February.
Other settlements have become almost deserted by people, who could potentially guide sanitary authorities in mapping the boundaries of the burial grounds (12).
The maindeck of the Chesapeake was almost deserted, having been swept by Shannons gunfire; the surviving gun crews had either responded to the call for boarders or had taken refuge below.
Two-thirds of the 1m Germans who once lived in Kazakhstan have departed since 1989, leaving some villages almost deserted.
Once-busy beauty salons that had catered to rich and trendy Damascenes are almost deserted.
For honor's sake, Ruyloba still took the field with his pistol afterward, despite having almost his entire army desert, and was killed in a brief battle with the rebels.
