they had occupied
-avaient occupé
Past perfect they conjugation of occupy.

occupy

For at least a century they had occupied lands or raided into them.
Pendant au moins un siècle, ils ont occupé des terres ou y ont effectué des raids.
Commodities had been taken off the predominant place in the international development agenda that they had occupied for many years.
Les produits de base avaient perdu la place prédominante qu'ils avaient occupée pendant de nombreuses années au sein des questions internationales de développement.
Only ten million years later, at the end of the Paleocene, they had occupied a large part of the vacant ecological niches, often competing with giant carnivorous birds, especially in South America.
Seulement dix millions d'ans après, à la fin du paléocène, ils avaient occupé une grande partie des places écologiques vides, concurrençant souvent les oiseaux carnivores géants, particulièrement en Amérique Du sud.
In Diyala governorate, efforts were under way to have MNF-I, the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police units vacate more than 70 school buildings they had occupied and used for military purposes.
Dans le gouvernorat de Diyala, des mesures sont prises pour faire en sorte que la Force multinationale en Iraq, l'armée iraquienne et les unités de la police iraquienne évacuent les quelque 70 bâtiments scolaires qu'elles occupaient et utilisaient à des fins militaires.
This event led the Hospitallers to abandon the site they had occupied and to start to build a new center in the northwestern section of the city, adjacent to the northern wall of 12th century Acre.
Cet évènement a mené les Hospitaliers à abandonner les lieux qu’ils occupaient et à entamer la construction d’un nouveau centre dans la partie Nord Ouest de la ville, adjacente au mur Nord d’Acre datant du 12ème siècle.
They had occupied themselves almost exclusively with nice theoretical distinctions, mere formalities, and questions of constitutional etiquette.
Elles s'étaient occupées presque exclusivement de subtiles distinctions théoriques, de pures formalités et de questions d'étiquette constitutionnelle.
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