Sentence examples for became inadequate from inspiring English sources

Richard Williams One weekend in the mid-1990s, the Woolworths in Gainsborough suddenly became inadequate.

Eventually, merchants stopped providing bullion for the mint, and the supply of coins became inadequate.

In the mid-20th century this definition became inadequate because of the need for increased precision in timekeeping.

Despite the dam's vast storage capacity and the improvements carried out in the early 1950s, it became inadequate, and two subsidiary dams were subsequently added.

Late 20th and early 21st-century capitalism being what it is, however, that definition soon became inadequate: by last year, the world was home to 13 million HNWIs.

"In the face of such mounting pressures, all the administrative orders and technical solutions on pollution control became inadequate," Mr. Qu said.

Conventional measures of freedom have become inadequate.

But the physical plant of the theater has become inadequate.

Numbers like net worth can become inadequate shorthand.

In software engineering, usual top-down approaches become inadequate to design such systems.

To the contrary, a monumental public building should not become inadequate in less than 50 years.