21.   An hour later, there was hardly an empty seat.

22.   And Delta ends up with empty seats.

23.   And filling those empty seats is why we all were assembled in a hotel ballroom in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon.

24.   And neither poor TV ratings nor empty seats could take away the feeling that somehow, some way, everything was going to be all right.

25.   And throw in the number of empty seats in several arenas around the league, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Cleveland, Houston and Denver.

26.   Another fan at that game was arrested and charged with arson after a flare gun was fired during the game into empty seats across the field.

27.   As a result, airlines expect to have fewer empty seats next year, and to offer fewer discount fares.

28.   As the number of aircraft worldwide grows, so does the risk that they will take off with empty seats.

29.   At the moment, said Jacobs, he has no hard evidence that the rhetoric among the vox populi will translate into empty seats.

30.   At times, empty seats have made as much news as final scores.