This evidence suggests that the religious structures were deliberately abandoned slowly over time.

As he is slowly abandoned by an industry that his own ancestors helped to create, Trevor begins to fight back.

The latter was slowly abandoned during the 19th and 20th century.

The original refugee site is slowly abandoned and new houses and projects are being held to regenerate the area.

Later this style of hat became associated with colonial oppression and was slowly abandoned by the military, government, traffic police, etc.

It is unclear whether it was abandoned slowly over a period of years or quickly.

After a number of troubled periods when the castle provided shelter for the local population, it was slowly abandoned from the 16th century.

However this system was slowly abandoned from the 1970s and technical education is now virtually non-existant.

The castle was then slowly abandoned by the aristocracy.

The city was slowly abandoned after the fall of the Roman Empire around the 5th century and 6th century.