Sentence examples for and then virtually from inspiring English sources

So, what happens with municipal privileges, towns that had municipal privileges, these are eroded and then virtually eliminated by powerful potentates.

He's a widower who owns a small restaurant — Adrian's, named after his late wife — and he no longer has anything to do with the world of boxing, where he gained his life and then virtually lost it.

And then, virtually in the next breath, they declare that we must preserve tax cuts for the very affluent, at a budget cost of $700 billion over the next decade.

Corrie's death, which made the papers for two days and then virtually disappeared, has met with almost total official silence, despite the fact that eyewitnesses claim it was a deliberate act.

By reconstructing the building with three-dimensional computer modeling and then virtually "walking through" it, researchers have discovered that in some sections the building may have had all the efficiency of a railroad-style apartment on the Bowery.

If a client is interested in seeing how a certain color and type of carpeting might look, he said, the material can be scanned and then virtually poured throughout the on-screen building.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky served as guest conductor during the hall's opening week, and since then virtually every important American and visiting musician has performed there.

The early work was on seed growth — to figure out how to replace what burned — and until then, virtually the only places where Americans were studying forestry were in Europe or back East.

Gere revealed that he turned down the part several times but after a meeting between him and a then virtually unknown Roberts, arranged by Marshall, he couldn't help but change his mind.

And "unlike then, virtually all of these companies now have real employees, business plans, profits and customers.

Eventually, he turned to acting in vaudeville, touring companies, radio and Australian movies, then virtually unknown outside that country.