Sentence examples for became a substantial from inspiring English sources
It was founded in the 13th century and quickly became a substantial commercial city.
Sexual behaviour, therefore, became a substantial issue between him and his converts, and for that reason his letters frequently refer to sexual ethics.
The trading became a substantial source of revenue at banks and hedge funds, which vigilantly guard the code underpinning their lucrative trading strategies.
By 1996, with the help of a bank loan, he had set up a wind turbine on top of a hill at Nympsfield, in the Costswolds, and started generating what became a substantial income.
But here he's inspired less by the historical dramas Ms. Gong starred in than by the work of Wong Kar-wai, the Hong Kong filmmaker whose "In the Mood for Love" became a substantial commercial success in Europe and, to a lesser degree, in the United States.
"We correctly decided that Icahn had not suddenly become an inept investor in the mid-1990s, and so by the time he was considered an investing genius again about a decade later, the discount to NAV that had plagued those shares for so many years very suddenly became a substantial premium," he writes.
