1.   But last year, the state began to investigate other problems, including decaying buildings, a demoralized teaching staff and security violations in school buildings.

2.   But not enough decaying buildings were repaired.

3.   But the board of directors needed money to keep the Barnes afloat and save its decaying building in Merion, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb.

4.   But things have not improved in the dangerously decaying building, Mrs. Galarza says.

5.   Her subjects include decaying buildings and enduring nature.

6.   Outside her small office in a decaying building in central Shkodra, the street is more pothole than pavement.

7.   Prized employees and insured patients are fleeing to the private sector, leaving decaying buildings and the sickest or uninsured patients behind.

8.   When he tries to push the residents to renovate their decaying building, things go haywire.

9.   Decaying Victorian buildings are being converted into spiffy cafes, and new developments is reviving the rundown docklands.

10.   Several decaying buildings sit empty, surrounded by overgrown grass.