Sentence examples for were occupied around from inspiring English sources

For the first few months of this year the streets around the parliament were occupied around the clock by angry factory workers, disgruntled tax inspectors or junior doctors, all protesting against their miserable pay.

There was a short line, all the spots to stand and eat by the windows were occupied, and a crowd was around the mustard pump.

The city hopes to have 4,000 new homes ready by March 2016, but at the end of last year only about 150 had been completed, of which around 100 were occupied.

The first seven months of restoration were occupied with excavating the grounds around the monument to find missing Buddha heads and panel stones.

Of the 2200 acre site, around 700 acre were occupied by the initial Necropolis site and the adjacent reserve site, and a further 200 acre retained their common land rights and could not be developed in any way, rendering them worthless to prospective buyers.

More than 70% of Cbt targets were also Yki targets, and of these, around 76% were occupied by the three of them (Fig 2B).

Only two were occupied.

The rooms were occupied.

None were occupied.

Several municipal buildings were occupied.

At luxury grocery store Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which the campaign group UK Uncut claimed was occupied by around 200 of its supporters, paint was being scrubbed from brickwork.