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"Occurrence" in a Sentence (13 examples)
That is the common occurrence in Japan.
This is a daily occurrence.
We are interested in the flow of evacuation events from the occurrence of a large earthquake to the conclusion of emergency countermeasures.
Both victory and defeat are but an everyday occurrence to a soldier.
Needless to say, theft was a rare occurrence.
Mining-induced earthquakes are a frequent occurrence in the Ruhr area.
"If any of you survive this fatal night and return to Jamaica tell the admiral that I was in search of the pirate when this lamentable occurrence took place; tell him I hope I have always done my duty, and that I-."
The now ubiquitous occurrence of sectarian violence is the product of growing tensions between the country's different ethnic groups.
Rain is an infrequent occurrence in this part of the country.
It's an everyday occurrence in these parts.
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Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
The time interval of an occurrence—a temporal instantiation—is a single occasion. However, a series of such occasions can fall within a certain time interval; in this case we may represent the occurrence as a single situation (cf. I ran off and on for an hour, I ran and ran for an hour, I would run and then run some more).
The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences. […]Based on consideration of inherent differences between the events involved, Vendler distinguished three different types of occurrence, achievements, activities, and accomplishments.
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