prolonged occupation

collocation in English

meaningsofprolongedandoccupation

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prolonged
adjective
uk
/prəˈlɒŋd/us
/prəˈlɑːŋd/
continuing for a ...
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occupation
noun
uk
/ˌɒk.jəˈpeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.kjəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
a ...
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(Definition ofprolongedandoccupationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They received a report from their agent that the barn was not suitable forprolongedoccupation, and they sanctioned his renting another building.
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If there were to beprolongedoccupation, together with an ongoing general situation of insecurity, we would be facing a two-fold risk.
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Does he agree that in those circumstances aprolongedoccupationof the factory could deter an alternative employer?
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I have read a suggestion that there should be aprolongedoccupation.
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My noble friend also asked whether a warrant authorisedprolongedoccupationof the premises.
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We have also to bear in mind the difficulties ofprolongedoccupationof shelter habitation in fall-out conditions and that relatively safe areas are no longer immune.
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It is quite obvious that you must haveprolongedoccupation, or at any rate some considerable occupation, and that that occupation must he serious and carried out by sufficient forces.
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Theprolongedoccupationled to looting and destruction of the homes and villages in the region.
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This desensitization of these responses may be caused due to increased exposure to the endogen norepinephrine or fromprolongedoccupationof the norepinephrine transport itself caused by allosteric effect.
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Theprolongedoccupationwas an unorthodox one.
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