This is a dramatic example of the fact that we all inhabit more than one level of reality at the same time.

"The question is, was it still inhabited at the time of its destruction, or were its people already safely gone by then?"

The actor playing Willy must somehow have a fixed focus on what are really two different characters inhabiting a single mind at the same time.

Some major settlements may have had more than a dozen houses, although not all were inhabited at the same time by the approximately fifty residents.

The land along the river was inhabited at the time by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians.

The main village has two layers of structures, which are believed not to have been inhabited at the same time.

Only a few farmers appeared to have inhabited the area at the time, and they left the Avebury monument largely untouched.

The museum includes exhibits on the Cherokee, who inhabited the area at the time of European encounter.

Simushir was inhabited by the Ainu, at the time of European contact.

Pit houses were still being inhabited at the same time that long houses existed on the landscape.