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Not good to see this in a journal that purports to be the trade paper for the publishing industry.

Expansion will come in areas that use to be occupied by music and movie titles.

via Borders Sales Fall 12% in First Quarter   – 5/26/2009 9:27:00 AM – Publishers Weekly.

Either “… areas that used to be strong” or “… were once strong” would be more correct than the purely verbal construction “use to be.”

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