Sentence examples for it once occupied from inspiring English sources

They were able to buy 21 acres from PepsiCo — except for a 60-by-200-foot parcel that PepsiCo carved out to serve as a permanent home for its billboard, on almost exactly the spot it once occupied, though much closer to the ground.

IMAGINE the political cartography of Europe a decade from now: at its hub, the reunified Germany, encircled by lands it once occupied yet locked in peaceful step with them by a common European currency and by common membership in the NATO alliance.

The package may wrest back some of the lost ground, but, despite all its largesse, Labour is unlikely to regain the commanding heights it once occupied as the undisputed party of the NHS.

It once occupied properties in Albany East Los Angeles Philadelphiaia; Wilson, N.C.; and Yonkers, among others.

The space, much of it once occupied by Bank of America, has been empty for two years.

And the chief expectation, as Federico Ferrara, an expert on Thailand, puts it, is to put the aristocracy back into the more ceremonial role it once occupied.

It was once occupied by cows.

It was once occupied by Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing, a well-known poet.

It was once occupied by Emily's brother, Austin (1829-1895), and his family.

In the village of Luho, the only giveaway that it was once occupied was the occasional glimpse of bamboo marking a doorway.

As indicators of the long-term isolation of this site from immigration, it was once occupied by a now-extinct species of pupfish and a now-extinct, morphologically distinct, form of the Gila chub.