Sentence examples for occupying weeks from inspiring English sources

Active Rain said they complied, occupying weeks of the owners' and officers' time.

Here was a game and a competition that they can afford to write off, considering the more serious agenda occupying the weeks ahead.

"You Make Me Wanna... ...... reached number fifteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart, occupying twenty-six weeks in the chart.

Amid low expectations, it came as a surprise to Western diplomats when Russia signed off on an agreement calling for armed separatists in eastern Ukraine to lay down their weapons and surrender the public buildings they have been occupying for weeks.

The Israeli tanks are gone from the positions they occupied for weeks within a hundred yards of the compound.

For example, the city hall in Caracas, the capital, has been occupied for weeks by chavista squatters backed by armed police sent by the interior ministry.

The military said Friday that it had pushed the militants out of a strategic town of Alpuri, which they occupied several weeks ago.

Many hundreds of young people met John Hurst through the excavations at Wharram Percy, which occupied three weeks each July for almost 40 years of his life.

With 1,000 kilometres of palm-fringed coastline, there's enough variety to keep the most ardent sun-worshipper occupied for weeks on end.

Crimea's largely Russian-speaking residents voted in March to become part of Russia in a hastily organised referendum held as Russian troops patrolled the Black Sea peninsula they had occupied only weeks before.

But AOL executives have been occupied for weeks by requests for internal documents and e-mail messages, and by time-consuming interviews with investigators looking at other companies, according to people involved in the inquiries.