After all, the 100-year-old structure "had been occupied continuously for 96 years," he said.
As is often the case with such shelters, it was not occupied continuously.
The archaeologists found cooking areas, so we know they lived in the area, although the site was not occupied continuously.
Astronauts, cosmonauts and space tourists from 17 countries have used the ISS and it has been occupied continuously since November 2000.
The main goal of Endeavour's mission is to put a new crew aboard the space station, which has been occupied continuously for a year.
The old law applied to people living in illegal lofts in buildings where at least three units had been residentially occupied, continuously, from April 1 , 1980 through Dec. 1, 1981.
Neolithic sites (before 2500 bce) are found in the Evrótas valley, the Maléa peninsula, and elsewhere; Yeráki, a quiet village southeast of Sparta, has been occupied continuously since Neolithic times and has remains from several periods of its history.
An older pattern, still found in a few areas (as among some Maya peoples of the south and among the Huichol of the north), was for the municipio centre to be an empty town, occupied continuously only by civil and religious authorities and perhaps a few merchants.
The city's hands seem to be tied for now because tenants in the building have applied for coverage under the loft law, which offers legal status to lofts that were occupied continuously for 12 months from Jan 1., 2008, to Dec. 31, 2009.
Radiocarbon dating of the archaeological deposits, some 8 meters in depth, showed that Chogha Golan had been occupied continuously between about 12,000 and 9,700 years ago or even later.
