1.   Street selling has always centered in the downtown historic district, a maze of narrow streets and crumbling colonial buildings.

2.   As they have for several days, workers spent as much time shoring up the crumbling building as they did clearing rubble and looking for victims.

3.   Because the medina is so overcrowded, the agency is not always able to find temporary homes for people who live in crumbling buildings during the repairs.

4.   Bernd and his wife, Susanne, lived first in a crumbling building that they shared with squatters.

5.   But it attracts thousands more people than the crumbling buildings it replaced, since tourists tend to avoid the abandoned and deteriorating.

6.   Crumbling buildings have been knocked down, rotting trees uprooted, flowers and shrubs planted, broken windows covered with fresh gray boards and light posts decked with banners.

7.   Crumbling buildings that housed communist apparatchiks are being renovated for government ministers.

8.   Feyzabad is home to Rabbani and what passes for a central government, which is housed in a crumbling building filled with broken windows along the river.

9.   Gale, the MIT student, was somewhat reclusive, living off campus in a fourth-floor apartment in a crumbling building.

10.   He pointed to a crumbling building covered with vines.