Sentence examples for became a fact from inspiring English sources

What was inconceivable became a fact.

A year passed, and then a century, and new-girllessness became a fact — as simple and discrete as other facts.

With the introduction of notes and coins in January 2002, it became a fact of life in 12 countries, with even more now queuing up to join.

I don't regret anything I ever said, but I never knew back then that whatever I said became a fact that I couldn't change.

This was duly reported in the following day's media … So £15 became a fact referred to long after both of us ploughed non-postal furrows".

With the formal presentation to the assembly of the standard metre, as determined by Delambre and Mechain, the metric system became a fact in June 1799.

The day I became a fact-checker at The New Yorker, I received one set of red pencils and one set of No. 2 pencils.

However when the coup happened, my trip also became a fact-finding mission into the effect the de facto regime was having on the women's movement in Honduras.

[FC: There used to be a training period before the pencils.] [[VH: O.K. for "the day I became a fact-checker" to designate end of training period?]] The red pencils were for underlining passages on page proofs of articles that might contain checkable facts.

My natural cynicism, combined with (at that stage) a couple of years' working in and around the beauty industry, meant I assumed she'd never been near the two-quid shampoo outside a film studio; so a wee break also became a fact-finding mission.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall a decade ago, rightist violence has become a fact of German life.