Sentence examples for were first occupied from inspiring English sources

Rooms in the building were first occupied in February, to protest an outsourcing protest that had been going on since May 2012.

These e-communes were first occupied by students from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where they were called "geek houses," the computer nerd's version of a fraternity house.

In their place, it recommends a new section recognising "that the continent and its islands now known as Australia were first occupied by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples"; the same new section would give parliament power to make laws for the "advancement" of those peoples.

It was first occupied by Arnold Falk, whose Water Street company imported Sumatran tobacco.

Their most impressive monument - Great Zimbabwe - was first occupied in about 3000BC.

The house was first occupied by Isaac Plum, shown in city directories as a sign and ornamental painter.

He was a teenager when his motherland was first occupied by the Germans and into his forties when they did so again.

It was first occupied by Alexander Hamilton, occupation unknown (not the first secretary of the Treasury, who died in 1804), but his family lost it in foreclosure in 1841.

The nearly circular hill of the ancient ruined city, just southeast of the present village, was first occupied by the Gephyreans, an Athenian clan.

Built in 1925 as a cigar factory and functioning as a Kodak warehouse beginning in 1949, the York Avenue building was first occupied by Sotheby's in 1980.

The Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace), a low, hulking yellowish stone building on the water, was first occupied in 1754, replacing the city's previous castle, which had burned down.