My severe night sweats and hot flashes were so lessened in their intensity that they ceased to occupy my attention.
It has long since ceased to occupy the lower "levels of civilisation" in which H.L. Mencken put it in the 1920s and where it stayed for another 50 years.
The HIP movement, which began half a century ago with the aim of using historical sources and, where possible, period instruments to play music in a way that its composer might have intended, has long since ceased to occupy a market niche peopled by eccentrics and zealots.
By the mid-15th century, Magna Carta ceased to occupy a central role in English political life, as monarchs reasserted authority and powers which had been challenged in the 100 years after Edward I's reign.
Firstly, where the tenant sublets or parts with possession of a property or ceases to occupy knowing that it is a breach of tenancy.
The second, more serious offence, is where a tenant dishonestly, in breach of tenancy, sublets without consent and ceases to occupy the property as their only or principal home.
Hell meant ceasing to hope.
They're ceasing to function.
Death, of ceasing to exist.
But ceasing fire should not mean ceasing to care.
