31.   The building, vacant for several years, once housed racially separate restrooms, drinking fountains and entrances.

32.   The limestone structure had been vacant for years.

33.   The position being taken by Steward, which is the top business-side job at TV Guide, had been vacant for some time.

34.   The position had been vacant for several months.

35.   The Russian Embassy sat vacant for years while the two countries squabbled over the new American Embassy in Moscow.

36.   The three-story mansion had been vacant for years and was in disrepair when the sisters transformed it into a convent and retreat center.

37.   The winner will leave with the little-known International Boxing Association heavyweight championship, a title that is vacant for a good reason.

38.   They left it vacant for the six months it took to find a buyer.

39.   Trans World Airlines Inc. named William Compton president and chief operating officer, filling posts that have been vacant for the past year.

40.   When the Oilers moved training camp to Tennessee this year, it left Trinity University vacant for the first time in seven years.