21.   Just how high rents will rise depends on location.

22.   Many hotels lease out ground floor space to retailers, because of the high rents these businesses are willing to pay.

23.   McMurtry hopes that Archer City, which is two hours northwest of Dallas, will eventually attract other stores driven out of the big cities by high rents.

24.   Natural-food supermarkets have been a long time in coming to New York because of high rents here.

25.   Not everyone who lives in the outer boroughs is an aspiring Manhattanite, resentful of the high rents that push people to the north, south or east.

26.   One by one, tenants left, complaining of high rents and low numbers of customers.

27.   Others were living in places that made them ill or were paying high rents.

28.   Other suburban singles said they would like to live in New York City, but cannot afford the high rents.

29.   Quality workers, good transportation access and high suburban rents all make San Francisco look good to business these days, Nork said.

30.   Retailers have succumbed to high rents and slow sales.