Sentence examples for stand vacant for from inspiring English sources

For that reason, sales of new subsidized homes have slowed dramatically, and many stand vacant for months before selling.

Gehry's exhilarating building was sold to the French government, which, after letting it stand vacant for eleven years, remodelled it recently as a film institute and library).

Still, phones will not be ringing off the hook for this site, according to brokers familiar with the property; some say it may stand vacant for years.

WHITE PLAINS - IN the rejuvenated climate that is this city's attraction to developers and businesses, with towers going up and new stores moving in fast, empty space in most malls doesn't stand vacant for long.

(The American Center closed in 1996. Gehry's exhilarating building was sold to the French government, which, after letting it stand vacant for eleven years, remodelled it recently as a film institute and library).

"We're going to be using our school buses, which, if you think about it, stand vacant for a large part of the day, to shuttle older New Yorkers to and from grocery stores," Mr. Bloomberg explained, speaking at the Mark Morris Dance Center off Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.

But the post has now stood vacant for a year.

And so it stood vacant for a decade, growing increasingly shabby and finally dangerous.

One house down the block, he said, stood vacant for 10 years.

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

Strikingly photographed in 1947 by Julius Shulman, it stood vacant for several years after Kaufmann's death in 1955.