Sentence examples for stand empty for from inspiring English sources

The rubbish-strewn plots not built on may stand empty for ever.

The London mayor said he was urging London boroughs to "whack up" tax on property owners who allow their homes to stand empty for more than a year.

A track which includes Seabiscuit, Affirmed, Swaps, Seattle Slew and Citation on its roll of honour, and which was home to Zenyatta in her racing days, will stand empty for just a few weeks until the wreckers arrive.

A property will have to stand empty for at least two years and owners will have to be given at least three months' notice before the order can be issued.

While Calvert says that "there is also a high population of people who take early retirement in Gunnerside, who are a real asset to the community, involving themselves in local events and supporting local facilities," she explains that there are a number of properties in the area which stand empty for many weeks of the year.

Local families often cannot now afford to purchase (or even rent) in their home village or town, while whole villages are left deserted during the winter months and houses stand empty for all but a few weeks of the summer because their wealthy owners want to keep them for their own private use.

To make matters worse, the building stood empty for 20 years.

The project never materialized, and the building stood empty for a number of years.

Entire streets of houses have stood empty for years, their windows and doors "tinned up" with metal sheets.

Once completed, the building stood empty for years as the company decided how to make a profit from the structure.

A Queens-based developer, George Fakiris, renovated 316 units in four low-rise buildings that had stood empty for two decades.