Sentence examples for were previously occupied from inspiring English sources

Since last year Pakistan has complained of raids into its territory by Pakistani Taliban fighters sheltering in parts of Kunar and Nangarhar provinces that were previously occupied by US forces.

In absolute terms, the collapse of the construction sector caused a maximum loss of 1.74 million, mostly low-skilled jobs during the crisis, but this is not the whole picture.8 From peak to trough Spain lost three million jobs that were previously occupied by workers with no more than compulsory education.

Telecommunications companies like Verizon and AT&T have spent nearly $20 billion to secure the rights to the frequencies that were previously occupied by channels 52 through 69, in the hopes of using that airspace to improve their wireless communication networks.

What "bumping down" means is that when there is an overall shortage of jobs, higher-skilled (more educated) workers tend to take jobs that were previously occupied by lower-skilled workers.

A total of 12 (46.2%) unexposed rooms were previously occupied by a MRSA patient.

The 12 heart-shaped containers now occupied 12 of the 24 positions that were previously occupied by the flat round containers, and the flat round containers occupied all positions that were previously occupied by the heart-shaped containers.

The building is three stories high and was previously occupied by an art gallery.

Approximately half of this land was previously occupied by smallholder farmers and indigenous groups.

Facebook's campus was previously occupied by a once-rising technology star, Sun Microsystems.

He lives in New York in a Fifth Avenue building that was previously occupied by one of his heroes of photography, André Kertész.

The ground floor was previously occupied by Geiger of Austria, a clothing company, and Morgan Stanley, the financial services company.