Sentence examples for existed much less from inspiring English sources

I cannot quite believe that she really existed, much less that I once shared a desk with her.

How many people outside Texas were more than vaguely aware that the university existed, much less fielded a Division I team that plays in the Big 12 conference?

She did not know that such a thing as the United Nations existed, much less that it now had 12,500 troops in her country.

Then, rather wonderfully, there are the outliers, those genres that you almost certainly didn't even know existed – much less ever explored – suomi rock, shimmer psych, fourth world – right there at your fingertips any time you please.

In 1957, the Interstate System was just getting under way, and Medicare did not exist, much less a war on terrorism.

It is more difficult to do so when the series is animated and the set does not exist, much less the location the set represents.

When they figure out what they need to bill hourly, they load it up with all that recurring payroll expense, which includes people and partners who don't even know your project exists, much less make any contribution to it.

The Democrats want to cover more than 30 million people over 10 years; Republicans said the nation could not even afford the entitlement programs, like Medicare, that already exist, much less start new ones.

But the "what works" approach has another hurdle to clear: Most educators, including principals and superintendents and curriculum supervisors, do not know the data exist, much less what they mean.

Unlike my 80-year-old mother, who is forever rhapsodizing about high-profile department stores that flourished when she was 30 and closed when she was 70, I find myself at age 50 reminiscing about high-profile e-tailers that didn't exist, much less flourish, when I was 49.

"But he called me up and said, 'Mama' — he always calls me Mama — 'Mama, how come you haven't made a reservation to come to my restaurant?' " The very fact that Spago Beverly Hills continues to exist, much less prosper, is striking at a time when the Los Angeles restaurant scene is so dynamic and punishing.