There are 7.9m under-occupied homes in England, however only 5.4% of these were social homes.

And I headed for my stateroom, with my big round under-occupied bed.

The vast majority of under-occupied homes (88%) are in the owner-occupied sector.

The department is on solid ground when it offers financial benefits to stimulate movement from under-occupied subsidized apartments.

Poor planning and a glut of commercial spaces created a sizable number of under-occupied or abandoned shopoffice projects in the country.

"Talk Radio" shows us how mass culture can fester and mutate into violence in those under-occupied minds that religiously plug into the airwaves every night.

"Everything is very cheap now, but when the tourists come back it will be expensive," said Karim, whose Arab horses were as under-occupied as his feluccas.

Some blame an under-occupied press corps for the boomlets that come and go - today Bob Kerrey, tomorrow Sam Nunn.

Locality is essential to encourage people to move: If we want people to move out of under-occupied social housing they have to be offered alternatives that are attractive to them.

Similarly, a study group of the Association of Municipal Authorities proposed that records of void and under-occupied land and property should be held by all public sector bodies.

But Japanese financing from the Mitsui Trust and Orix was withdrawn in 1990 and other lenders refused to consider a project including a hotel in Chicago's overbuilt and under-occupied market.

The "Declaration of Rights" that forms part of the Agreement and was entrenched in the constitution for ten years included a carefully worded section allowing the compulsory purchase of under-occupied land for settlement purposes, balanced by clauses requiring payment of compensation that could be remitted overseas.

Only 4 per cent of housing stock in English rural districts compared with 6 per cent of the total English housing stock exceeded the official overcrowding index in 1971, but almost 38 per cent of housing in rural districts was defined as 'under-occupied'.