And the city has ceased to be a northern European province.

Not many years after cities ceased to be alarming, they began to appear to need saving.

By the mid-20th century, the city had ceased to function.

Yet the mayor said repeatedly that the city would not cease to function.

In 1601, the city ceased to be the provincial capital.

All he had to do was pick up the phone next to the bed, and in ten minutes those four cities would cease to exist.

The city finally ceased to exist in the 14th-century, at the end of the Bronze Age.

These cities have ceased to be centers for industry and have become domains of culture.

Legend has it that were these two birds to fly away, then the city would cease to exist.

Great Ogier-built cities had ceased to exist, some leaving not so much as a name behind.