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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sign of occupation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an indication or evidence of someone's presence or activity in a particular area or context, often related to work or military presence. Example: "The abandoned buildings were a clear sign of occupation, suggesting that the area had been inhabited not long ago."
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Holyrood Park, Blackford Hill, and Craiglockhart Hill all show signs of occupation in the late 1st millennium bc.
In total, London's fire brigade tackled 235 fires in buildings that should not have been occupied but showed signs of occupation, resulting in four lives lost and 45 serious injuries.
In the photographs, we see walls, doors and windows effaced by thick, pasty Tippex, creating ghostly presences amid the builder's rubble, the scaffolding and the crumbling brickwork; the Tippex drowns out the London grime, the signs of occupation and dereliction.
In most cases, it appears that the contractor, known as a property inspector or property preserver, broke in after ignoring obvious signs of occupation: lights turned on, grass mowed and homes fully furnished.
Signs of occupation included some Roman material, including pottery, bronzes and brooches, implying a possible trading relationship between the Votadini and the Romans beginning with Agricola's northern campaign in AD 82, and continuing through to the establishment of the Antonine Wall around AD 140.
The human sign of continuous occupation of the continent appears only at circa 12,500 years BP in the Monte Verde site in Chile (Dillehay 1997) and in Brazil (the recent dating of a human tooth in Toca Do Gordo do Garrincho that gave an age of 12.210 ± 40; Peyre et al. 2009).
No tear gas has been fired in Ferguson for the last three nights, and Missouri's Governor Jay Nixon announced on Thursday that he would pull out the National Guard — yet another sign of the "occupation" of Ferguson, in locals' eyes, though the troops remained stationed in a local strip mall's parking lot for much of their deployment.
Pieces of ceramic vessels and tools made of amethyst and quartz are among the signs of human occupation from thousands of years ago.
Signs of such occupation are much more abundant where the Irharhar flowed than they are farther east a fact which was previously unexplained.
Signs of military occupation are everywhere, including trenches, bullet casings, shiny coils of razor wire and blast walls stamped, "This side Scud protection".
These signs of recent occupation – the larkish "Room Service" scribbled by a prisoner beside a cell's emergency bell – are as redolent as any art.
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