That has been my principal occupation since I was a boy.

By the end of the 19th century, over 35 families were living in the village and weaving had become the principal occupation.

It watched the German embassy as one of its principal occupations.

The second part formed the principal occupation of Goethe's last years.

Fishing has always been a principal occupation for the people of Polperro.

Agriculture was the principal occupation, with hay the chief crop.

Their principal occupation, agriculture, baffled the expert we brought in.

Through the 1800s, farming was a principal occupation in Epping.

Farming is the principal occupation in the area around Esbon.

But the merchant marine and fishing were the town's principal occupations.

However, in 1920, hunting was banned, and this led to the disappearance of their principal occupation.

With the decline of the mining industry, farming remained the principal occupation.

While lead mining diminished, agriculture became a principal occupation in the southern half of the state.

From 2000s his principal occupation is the theater, as author and producer of musicals.

Remembering those past deaths was not his principal occupation.

Farming was the principal occupation in the earliest days.

His principal occupation was that of a teacher of drawing and perspective.

Miner is the principal occupation in mining of mineral resources.

Despite an uneven and somewhat broken surface, the town's principal occupation became agriculture.

The principal occupation of the people ever since the early settlement of the town is agriculture.

He retired from the college in 1979, after which he made labor disputes his principal occupation.

Economically, agriculture and livestock were the principal occupations of the inhabitants.

In 1974, 60 percent of New Jersey's farmers said farming was their principal occupation.

He reported his principal occupation as: "Being dead."

Agriculture is the principal occupation of the people of Mannargudi.