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01. The accident [occurred] about 9:00 this morning.
02. Line-ups at food banks have become a common [occurrence] in a city where these organizations didn't even exist 20 years ago.
03. Barry was talking to his wife when it suddenly [occurred] to him that he had forgotten their anniversary.
04. The accident [occurred] because of a lack of attention on the part of the driver of the truck.
05. It simply didn't [occur] to me that I could use the Internet to do my research.
06. The meteor shower usually [occurs] in the middle of August every year.
07. It is a natural phenomena which generally [occurs] about once every five years.
08. Long hair is a [reoccurring] fad.
09. Sir William Osler once said that in science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first [occurs].
10. Henry Kissinger once said that the great tragedies of history [occur] not when right confronts wrong, but when two rights confront each other.
11. Benjamin Disraeli once suggested that what we anticipate seldom [occurs], but what we least expected generally happens.
12. Mortimer Adler once said that you have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things [occur] to you, to let your mind think.
13. The world's first car accident [occurred] in 1896.
14. Earthquakes [occur] in the world about once every hour.
15. Ninety percent of all volcanic activity [occurs] in the oceans.
16. At least 100,000 different chemical reactions [occur] in the normal human brain every second.
17. Ken Sloan once joked that reality is an illusion that [occurs] due to the lack of alcohol.
18. Unless safety procedures are improved immediately, an accident could easily [reoccur].
19. The child's terrible nightmares kept [reoccurring], so her parents took her to see a specialist.
20. I think your husband is okay now, but if the pain in his chest [reoccurs], you'd better take him to the hospital.
21. There have been several [occurrences] of sightings of UFOs in this area over the last few days.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Occur — Oc*cur , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Occurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Occurring}.] [L. occurrere, occursum; ob (see {Ob }) + currere to run. See {Course}.] 1. To meet; to clash. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • occur to — (you) to come into your mind. Did it occur to you to call my apartment to see if I was there? It never occurred to me to ask where she d been. Usage notes: often used in the form not occur to you: It hadn t occurred to her that she would be… …   New idioms dictionary

  • occur — I (come to mind) verb be uppermost in the mind, become aware, become visible, come into view, conjure up, crop up, cross ones mind, emerge, enter the mind, enter the picture, manifest itself, pass in the mind, present itself, present itself to… …   Law dictionary

  • occur — [v1] take place, happen action, appear, arise, befall, be found, be present, betide, chance, come about, come off*, come to pass, cook*, crop up, develop, ensue, eventualize, eventuate, exist, follow, go, jell*, manifest, materialize, obtain,… …   New thesaurus

  • occur — ► VERB (occurred, occurring) 1) happen; take place. 2) exist or be found to be present. 3) (occur to) come into the mind of. ORIGIN Latin occurrere go to meet, present itself …   English terms dictionary

  • occur — [ə kʉr′] vi. occurred, occurring [L occurrere, to run, come up to, meet < ob (see OB ) + currere, to run: see CURRENT] 1. to be found; exist [fish occur in most waters] 2. to present itself; come to mind [an idea occurred to him] …   English World dictionary

  • occur — (v.) 1520s, meet, meet in argument, from M.Fr. occurrer or directly from L. occurrere run to meet, run against, befall, present itself, from ob against, toward (see OB (Cf. ob )) + currere to run (see CURRENT (Cf. current)). Sense development is… …   Etymology dictionary

  • occur — *happen, chance, befall, betide, transpire Analogous words: rise, arise, *spring, emanate, issue, proceed: *follow, succeed, ensue, supervene …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • occur — has inflected forms occurred, occurring, and the noun derivative is occurrence (with two rs, often misspelt) …   Modern English usage

  • occur */*/*/ — UK [əˈkɜː(r)] / US [əˈkɜr] verb [intransitive] Word forms occur : present tense I/you/we/they occur he/she/it occurs present participle occurring past tense occurred past participle occurred Get it right: occur: Don t write the ed and ing forms… …   English dictionary

  • occur — verb occurred, occurring (I) formal 1 to happen: Many accidents occur in the home. | Climatic changes have occurred at intervals throughout the millennium. 2 (always + adv/prep) to happen or exist in a particular place or situation (+ in/among… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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