At the same time as closing down, selling off and merging SOEs, the government virtually gave away the housing stock attached to them.
When he huffed and puffed, the bank was virtually blown away.
The south side of Main Street, which backs onto the river, was virtually washed away.
"It rarely breaks down, they virtually give away spare parts, and the insurance is cheap," he said.
And cliffs look as though they were shaped by nature, rather than a programmer virtually chipping away at rectangular blocks.
They were virtually driven away from her campaign by its inelegant and cynical use of racial fears and prejudices.
And now it had been virtually taken away from him and like that, with him slipping against Chelsea.
You also want to bear in mind that we used to have another major poverty program — AFDC — which was replaced with TANF, which has virtually withered away.
By the end of the 13th century, tenurial serfdom had virtually died away, and other forms of landholding were evolving to take its place.
The business model adopted by most manufacturers of inkjet printers is to virtually give away the printer and make their money on replacement ink cartridges.
