1.   With the financial institutions of the City closed for the weekend the normally bustling streets were clear enough to allow bursts of sixty to seventy miles an hour.

2.   As the Sabbath ended at nightfall, the normally bustling pedestrian mall in Jerusalem was eerily empty.

3.   Beneath the buzz of volunteer rescue workers and journalists, a dull silence settled over the normally bustling street corner, now cordoned off by Kenyan security forces.

4.   A car-bomb Sunday on the normally bustling road killed seven Israeli soldiers and an American college student.

5.   But they also found themselves playing for only a handful of passers-by in the normally bustling locale.

6.   By late Sunday afternoon, officials closed access to the area and said the normally bustling island was a virtual ghost town.

7.   For now, the normally bustling airport is a ghost town.

8.   I shall never forget the sight of these moon men moving through our normally bustling, now empty newsroom, silent save for the ringing of unanswered phones.

9.   Shops were empty, and traffic was light, and the normally bustling Erez checkpoint between the Gaza Strip and Israel was deserted.

10.   The normally bustling waterfront tourist area was sudued Wednesday afternoon.