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
Villa Vie raised the monthly service fee for new passengers to $8,999 for double occupancy, according to its website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
But the city’s hotels only got a 1% bump in occupancy, according to a report published this week by Hospitality Education and Research Organization, a project of the Hotel Assn. of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The video explainer referred to inspections only generally, and the state’s written guidance indicated only that this would need to happen before occupancy.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
That would come in three more years, when the camp’s occupancy maxed out.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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Middle East hotel occupancies initially rose due to evacuations but are now weak; rising oil prices pose a broader risk to air travel.
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
But hotel occupancies by business travelers are low in markets like Minneapolis, San Francisco and Houston.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 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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