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Prime exports such as olive oil and wine fell in value and previously used agricultural land fell into disuse.
Another such symbol of triumph is the Richards Town Park, which was in a state of disuse and used as a den by drug addicts about eight years ago.
This was all in high school, and years of disuse and neglect have made my Spanish skills rustier than a Gary, Indiana steel mill.
The paper reports the device was placed in a building at an electrical station that had been in disuse for around ten years.
But it still had an air of recent disuse, despite the best efforts of the team from World Snooker to get the venue ready.
Now after many years of disuse, it will be a centre celebrating the unique cultural wealth of the Irish and Irish in America.
The ankle high grass that surrounds the building and the closed doors and windows indicated past and current disuse respectively.
Vehicles lying in disuse in open space, waiting for the lengthy trial procedures to be completed, often become scrap having no value.
It was revived yesterday after years of disuse to coincide with the opening of the area's new police headquarters at Whitebirk.
It remains the case, however, that the term itself has fallen largely into disuse, especially within professional circles.
Most of the money is being used for refurbishing properties which have fallen into disrepair and disuse.
The Bund Signal Tower, which fell into disuse over 100 years ago, is to be pressed into service again.
When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change.
Over time, the inflammatory pain causes disuse of affected joints leading to generalized osteopenia of whole bones.
In the 1980s, this nomenclature fell into disuse with increasing focus on industry.
Over the years the green fell into disuse and became gradually hidden under thick layers of leaves.
Behind him was a treadmill, unplugged and wedged into the corner, its disuse perhaps explaining his tubbiness.
Whatever hitting skills these transient players once had are now atrophied from disuse.
Habitus fell into disuse after the sixteenth century when Latin ceased to be the language of Philosophy.
The leafstalks and stem bases were formerly blanched like celery, but as a vegetable it has fallen into disuse.
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That morning in the piscine she had found herself able to walk properly though her heels were tender from disuse.
Leber has recently joined those cases which are described as blindness through blepharospasm, to amblyopia from disuse.
After this digression let us turn again to amblyopia from disuse, and to the last trump which is played for it.
Here we come upon the border of those changes which are ascribable to use and disuse.
As a result, we have no organs of hearing, for they have been atrophied from ages of disuse.
Many of these atrophies from disuse are cured by mental influence of one kind or another.
Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?
The Proto-Doric, the channelled polygonal column of the tombs at Beni-hassan, fell into disuse.
The disuse of salt fish and the greater consumption of meat marked the improvement which was taking place among the countryfolk.
Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.
The results of this method were so uncertain that the practice has fallen into disuse.
He had not vocalized since fledgling days and his voice had a jarring croak of disuse.
Feminine rhymes are indeed rarer than in Middle English poetry in consequence of the disuse of flexional endings.
It has fallen into disuse now, having been replaced by the glockenspiel or steel harmonica.
This seems to be written of a rural servitude which was lost by mere disuse, without adverse user by the servient owner.
The importance of use and disuse, and the transmissibility of their effects, would seem to supply a factor essential to evolution.
Moss and grass on a millwheel in the Midi are no surer signs of abandonment and disuse than a dry millrace.
Later on, in the fifteenth century, vocalic alliteration in general falls into disuse more and more.
It disappears most rapidly after the beginning of absolute disuse both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
Since the reduction of duty on coffee it has nearly fallen into disuse, unless it be by the grocers to adulterate that article.
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