Sentence examples for had been brighter from inspiring English sources

In January 1996, the brightness of 1989ML had been brighter than 20-magnitude in R-band and we succeeded to observe it using a 1.05-m schmidt telescope with 1K CCD detector at Kiso Observatory, Japan.

The day had been bright and clear, the weather unseasonably warm; the night cooled the neighborhood off, but not unpleasantly so.

At such times, a dark, heavy shadow can cast itself over a bar that had been bright and buzzing only hours earlier.

He had been bright enough as a child to be talked of as one of the students who could be sent abroad for schooling.

His racing future could not have been brighter.

This year has been brighter, as the pummeling of technology stocks has helped utilities pull ahead of broader indexes.

The stars at Universal Studio's party after the Golden Globe Awards in January could not have been brighter.

Some astronomers conjecture that it may have been brighter in the past; it would then have made a seventh bright star in the Pleiades cluster, which is named for seven mythological sisters.

Things have been brighter this year, however.

"We should have been brighter than that, but we weren't".

The poor figures signal consumers are still hesitant to open their wallets, although other recent economic indicators have been brighter. .