The house was practically abandoned.
Antigua was practically abandoned for nearly a century until the mid-1800s, whenewew investment effected the town's rebirth.
Perhaps because of a new feeling of confidence, the security check at the main gate had been practically abandoned.
The premier was looking into land reform to gain access to areas that had been practically abandoned.
And the judiciary, which is supposed to prevent government from violating constitutional rights, has practically abandoned that role.
La Encarnación, a very small village that was practically abandoned after a massacre two decades ago, is a couple of hours from Urrao.
In many of Baghdad's most battle-scarred areas, including Mansour in the west and Ur in the east, markets and parks that were practically abandoned last year have begun to revive.
But Zuzi pointed out that the area's regeneration really goes back to the 2002 when the nearby Vltava river flooded, taking out centuries-old buildings and leaving the place practically abandoned.
The Livestock Exchange Building, once home to 470 agricultural trading firms, was practically abandoned when National Farms bought it in 1991 and moved its offices there from the Board of Trade Building in a more posh part of town.
Around the same time, a theater-building boom replaced rundown old cinemas with sparkling new complexes that made moviegoing more attractive to the middle classes, which had practically abandoned the cinema for the television serials called telenovelas.
After Coast Guards had searched unsuccessfully for hours, hope was practically abandoned for the crew of forty-five of a fishing schooner, which foundered during an eighty-mile-an-hour gale in Delaware Bay, but it was later learned that thirty-four of the men had been taken on board a coal barge.
