occupancy
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The National Crime Records Bureau's last Prison Statistics India report from 2023 showed a national occupancy rate of 120.1%.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
But occupancy was 71%, well below the 83% recorded during Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Some destination shopping centres are running at "almost 100% occupancy", she adds.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Recently, airport traffic and hotel occupancy had been recovering from their lows, even as both remain broadly below prewar levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
It was in this manner that I discovered a room for immediate occupancy, in a house on a quiet street, the listing said, for eight dollars per week.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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“But we’re running pretty weak occupancies right now,” he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
In Switzerland, cantonal fire-safety authorities may require sprinklers for occupancies of more than 300 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 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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