By the early 1980s air pollution had been a dead issue for more than a decade.

It was already a dead issue by the time they came here.

"I thought it was quite clearly a dead issue," he said.

They also indicated that a property tax increase was a dead issue.

Benson was a dead issue - there seemed to be no possible way of getting a line on him.

I've loved you for a long time and tried to deny it, to hold on to a dead issue.

"I think it should be a dead issue," he said.

They might well be a dead issue anyway, if she couldn't get one of the drives up and running.

One manager called the need for more images a dead issue.

And by the time I turned female again, it was all a dead issue.