Sentence examples for had been occupied for from inspiring English sources

By the first century BCE, Rome had been occupied for over 600 years and leading citizens had left their mark on the city center.

One afternoon, the novelist Alejandro Zambra accompanied me to the National Institute, Chile's most prestigious public high school, which had been occupied for six months.

Neighbors in the Crestbury Apartments in Camden said the apartment where Mr. Crockam was arrested had been occupied for about the past month by two young women.

The Stockholm apartment had been occupied for decades by Hilding Linnqvist, a painter who died in 1984, and his wife, and the rooms were in need of renovation.

The skeleton turned out to be 42,000 years old – which meant the continent had been occupied for twice as long as was previously thought and that Aboriginal people belonged to the world's oldest surviving culture.

Though Columbia later became the second largest city in Maryland, the town had been occupied for only two years when he arrived, and the young Chabon spent hours exploring the nascent metropolis.

We had been negotiating for years to get it out of China," which Japan had been occupying for the nearly 10 years before Pearl Harbor.

He was in a suite at the Americana, which he had been occupying for the past 2 weeks, with his colleagues, Sylvester Garrett of Pittsburgh & Theodore Kheel, of N.Y.

Two months later, the rebels surrendered their base in Homs, a city they had been occupying for three years.

Both have been occupied for years by rental tenants.

The streets outside Parliament have been occupied for months by protesters demanding better wages.