Both supermarkets had to be handed over empty of stock, so many items that were not sold were donated to charities.
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Liberal Democrat universities spokesman Stephen Williams said the government's target to get half of young people into university was proving to be "empty rhetoric" and that record numbers of bright young people would be turned away this summer.
And without much star power on display, Citi Field could be a cavern of empty seats throughout its fifth season.
There could be a lot of empty seats in the proposed 20, 000 seat arena on the banks of the River Thames.
If everyone uses their new planes to expand capacity, rather than to replace clunkers, there could be a lot of empty seats.
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Very soon, everyone would be at home eating lunch and then napping, and the streets of the village would be empty.
The seats, which will be placed in the empty parts of the East and Family Stand, were all snapped up on Friday morning.
Another hour, two at the most and the place will be empty, just another stretch of pitted, stained tarmac waiting for the dawn and the people to bring about the daily miracle of its recreation.
Only the call of a crow disturbs the silence around a gleaming, empty terminal that should be humming with the din of thousands of passengers.
Responsible people don't like to be in the position of making empty threats like that.
The retail tracker said this could be connected to the abolition of empty property rates relief.
Owners of empty homes in a Kent town could be forced to sell their properties as part of a council scheme to ease a housing shortage in the area.
The effect of the industry's decline could be seen in the empty storefronts and dwindling population, said Mark Belanger, manager of the local branch of the state employment-security division.
As for the other business, the summit completed its main task, which was to approve the establishment of a permanent Ibero-American secretariat in Madrid, so that such empty platitudes can be thought up non-stop, instead of only once a year.
But it would be nice to fewer television images of empty seats in the two ballparks as the Nats and Orioles vault upward.
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Turner says it's hard enough for scientists to understand how the supposedly empty vacuum of space can be suffused with some form of cosmic energy.
By year's end, developers will have added 15 new buildings containing 2.6 million square feet, 40% of which will probably be empty when the buildings open.
While the center of Erfurt is still picturesque and remains a big draw for tourists, some big block buildings on the city's outskirts that used to be residential apartments now sit empty, many of them boarded up.
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Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood urged the Welsh Government to publish targets for the number of empty homes to be brought back into use each year, a recommendation which was supported by Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams AM.
And while a rejuvenated Bristol are breathing the rarefied air of the Premiership, Evans could be rattling round a half-empty Stoop, a fallen squire cursing the cruel realities of the modern game.
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Some of the few liberal-minded priests in the church fear these trends will lead to an established church of beautiful but empty symbolism to the detriment of other things the church should be doing, such as charity and education.
Walking to their conference rooms, they take me through large swaths of empty spaces of uninhabited floors where cubes once filled with busy people used to be.
Touching up the landscape, staffing it with a grinning cast of extras in Confederate uniform and letting off daily volleys of thunderflashes would be crude and misleading, said a crew of historians and culture vultures: the empty fields, with their slight bumps and dips, speak more tellingly of the past than models.
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But the half-empty marina has turned out to be a bit of a nightmare for Stockton.
They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches brew of charges considered, charges considered and abandoned, and charges never considered at all.
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Depending on the jurisdiction, criminal incitement is typically circumscribed by the requirement that the inciting speech be a real threat and not just an empty rant of a wild man.
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Although airport hotels have offered this service for transiting passengers for more than a decade, it is only in the last few years that city hotels have jumped on the idea, hoping to maximise the use of rooms that would otherwise be sitting empty.
There near its base are partially finished homes built by the government, all of them empty and never likely to be filled.
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