occupancy
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Just that morning, a City of Durham Fire Department inspector had visited the brewery and provided Ponysaurus with a fresh business occupancy inspection.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
For 2027, Carnival is already halfway booked, with both occupancy and pricing at record levels, according to Weinstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The store was otherwise sustainable, but was forced to close “due to increasing occupancy expenses,” the company wrote in a social media post at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Prison staff told the BBC they were increasingly having to put two inmates in single occupancy cells, as overcrowding across the adult male estate worsens.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The McArdles’ four deck chairs, cushioned and ready for occupancy, were situated in the middle of the second row from the front.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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Net absorption, a measure of new occupancies minus new vacancies, fell to 3.5 million square feet in 2025, down from a pandemic-era high of 4.8 million in 2021, according to Newmark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
“But we’re running pretty weak occupancies right now,” he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
She said much of the available accommodation is in "houses of multiple occupancies with shared amenities", but "this position is reflected nationally".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
And self-storage is popular, with record occupancies of 94.5 percent last year.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
The notable scarcity of roofing timbers in the ruins can probably be explained by the hypothesis of successive occupancies and subsequent or repeated use of material difficult to obtain.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff
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