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The Hastings estate was gradually sold off, and the castle site was sold by Earl Moira in 1811.

Starting around 1800, the land was gradually sold to developers; Edward Street was laid out in 1804 and quickly experienced a "mini building boom" with inns, stables and small workshops.

Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide are already fully state-owned and their assets are being gradually sold off.

Because he left masses of papers when he died, and as they were gradually sold to various collections across Europe, many must have gone missing.

With land and assets of £120m, it reinvests its income for long-term community, social care and primary health facilities – a financial model denied to subsequent new towns, where land and buildings were gradually sold off, undermining the original concept.

But it should have adopted a March 1861 proposal made by Benjamin, the attorney general at the time: purchase as much cotton as possible and immediately send it to England, where the stockpile might be gradually sold as needed to raise funds.

Minority government holdings in commercial banks are being gradually sold off through the stock market, but resistance from unions and from within the prime minister's own party have effectively halted plans for the deregulation and eventual privatization of state-owned military companies and the national power company.

Masellis' collection is being gradually sold off through the Doyle New York auction house.

The home is just part of the large Hepburn estate which has been gradually sold off since she died in June 2003.

It is gradually selling "green" to the mainstream consumer.

To pay bills, Mr. Hayden is gradually selling off furniture and paintings.