During the first few days of curfew, the city looked like a ghost town, the population holed up under collective house arrest. |
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If parking charges did deter shoppers from town centres, then Manchester city centre would be a ghost town. |
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Our town is turning into a ghost town and people are still fighting over power. |
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Once a mining center, Goldfield is now a crumbling carcass, a living ghost town of 300 people. |
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It's Christmas Eve and the little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, resembles a ghost town. |
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Local artists have been drafted in to transform the bottom end of the city which is fast becoming a ghost town as shops shut down. |
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Wake up Bolton Council and listen to the town's inhabitants before the town centre becomes a ghost town. |
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There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City. |
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A newly paved road, financed by remittances, leads to a virtual ghost town where more than half the homes are closed up. |
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A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie. |
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And for weeks after the catastrophes, the sprawling mall and concourses inside Pittsburgh International Airport resembled a ghost town. |
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A small town near Niagara Falls becomes a ghost town after industrial sludge from a leaking dump renders the area toxic. |
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If something isn't done soon, more shops will close, Kendal town centre will die and the place will become a ghost town. |
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But the city, which has been pretty much a ghost town for the last couple of days, is beginning to fill up. |
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My neighborhood was a ghost town, with papers and loose garbage rolling along the empty street. |
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Trip includes air charter from Anchorage and three nights at a scenic mountain lodge located in Alaska's largest mining ghost town. |
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Hundreds of Maltese commute into the capital which strangely becomes something of a ghost town at night, once all the shops have shut. |
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But nothing has ever happened and the quarry has remained quiet as a ghost town whereas, once upon a time, it employed some 100 men. |
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The school has closed and finally the long popular hotel was closed and the village seemed destined to become a ghost town. |
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After this period, outsiders ventured into the village anticipating nothing but a ghost town. |
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As the trucks and buses rolled out, the village took on the appearance of a ghost town, with only a few stray dogs roaming the empty streets. |
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The area that used to be the commercial center of Hebron is now a ghost town. |
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Since 1974 Varosha remains abandoned, frozen in time, a ghost town full of empty hotels. |
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The army has used its newly acquired firepower to flatten houses and other buildings, destroy coconut plantations and turn the city into a virtual ghost town. |
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Some 90 minutes earlier, downtown Port-of-Spain was like a ghost town, allowing traffic to flow smoothly, as everyone was glued to televisions and radios. |
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Those workers losing their livelihoods turned that town into a ghost town. |
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The church has only one service a week, on a Wednesday not a Sunday, which sounds odd until you realise that most of the City is a ghost town at the weekend. |
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One couple living in the cul-de-sac said it was normally like a ghost town at the weekends, that many of the houses were rented and most people cleared off home. |
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The city thronging with life an hour earlier has become a ghost town. |
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I don't know where all these tourists are or how they're getting about, but London is like a ghost town. |
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Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left. |
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As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town. |
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It's a ghost town now, just a handful of weathered wooden buildings sagging beneath snow. |
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We've heard some say that if something meaningful isn't done, rural Canada might soon be a ghost town. |
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Today, Dora has become a ghost town in many respects, as the majority of its former residents are currently refugees in Syria or Jordan. |
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Grozny has become a ghost town, a striking evidence that human being is capable not only of the best but also of the worst. |
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See relics of the gold mine dream in the abandoned cottages, huts and shops of the dusty ghost town of nearby Gwalia. |
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This measure is designed to prevent Zermatt becoming a ghost town during the off-season. |
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The capital, Pristina, was a ghost town with no shops open and few cars on the streets. |
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Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town. |
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After a few years, when all the richest mining claims had been staked, this small city imploded with equal suddenness, turning almost into a ghost town. |
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It is now a ghost town with only a few cottages still occupied, but there are interesting historic walks, a thirty bunk lodge, and plenty of space for tent camping. |
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With her husband Anatoli and her neighbour, they are the last of the Mohicans in this building by the north of the river that crosses the former mining ghost town of Akamara. |
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During the election day on 29 August 2004, Grozny resembled a ghost town. |
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Their record still exists at Silver City, a ghost town of old log cabins, built in 1925, that can be found among the trees near the Kluane airstrip where David Fisher coordinates the science of the ICE2001 team. |
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Some places that have the appearance of a ghost town, however, may still be defined as populated places by government entities. |
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If you depend on the mine, it's gonna be a ghost town. |
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Doug Guller, the CEO of ATX, purchased the ghost town of Bankersmith, Texas, and plans to start throwing events there by the fall. |
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Sometimes the structures are still easily accessible, such as in a ghost town, and these may become tourist attractions. |
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Nobody cared a hoot if Dawson City washed away into the Klondike River because it was an old ghost town with a couple of leftovers still hanging around from an old time. |
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This film is about a ghost town, fulfilled by nostalgia and memories. |
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In a ghost town, abandoned after the mine that supported its inhabitants closed, two men with a turbulent past have refused to join the exodus, and prepare to spend winter in complete autarky. |
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By the afternoon it was a ghost town inside the campus gates. |
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He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead. |
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Other little towns like Sayward, where we used to have a huge logging industry, is now almost a ghost town and it is looking for other ways to diversify. |
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We built that town and it sits there still as a ghost town. |
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A vein of anthracite that caught fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1962 has been burning ever since, turning the once thriving borough into a ghost town. |
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On his return home, he stopped for a while in Marrakech, which was almost a ghost town following the recent plague and the transfer of the capital to Fez. |
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