Sentence examples for has stood vacant for from inspiring English sources

A "Christian" school established a few years ago by the local Baptists is taking over from the city of Claremont a 15-year-old junior high school, which has stood vacant for lack of pupils for the last five years.

At the same time, garbage was piling up in prodigious heaps along practically the length of 94th Avenue, where a factory that Mr. Kallicharran can see from his front steps has stood vacant for several years because the city's budget problems delayed construction of a high school at the site.

The site the group has in mind for its Orchard Project is a lot in Logan Square that has stood vacant for decades.

Toward the end of the night, we came cross an eight-unit apartment building that has stood vacant for the last five years.

A new Egyptian ambassador, Muhammad Assem Ibrahim, arrived in Israel in March after the post had stood vacant for four years.

By Adeline Rumsey The New Yorker, April 20 , 1940P. 54 The house next door had stood vacant for five years.

Gottlieb tenants say that once vacated, empty apartments in their buildings are not being filled, while many storefronts have stood vacant for months.

This is a story of a tenant who could see the possibilities in a gloomy, one room building that had stood vacant for more than 10 years.

The new rental building has actually incorporated a massive old warehouse of discolored brick that had stood vacant for three decades -- except for an occasional squatter.

One of the group's first projects is the renovation of 80 Hanson Place, a 30,000-square-foot state-owned building that had stood vacant for 10 years.

She took the ambassador's post in August 2008 after it had stood vacant for nearly two years amid French-Syrian tensions over the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon.