Sentence examples for had been current from inspiring English sources

Rumours of such progress had been current for months.

"As of last month, Kodak had been current on its payments".

The official announcement was made after rumors had been current all day that the men had been shot at dawn.

"The scripted remarks, which focused on Sir Jimmy's age and stories which had been current at the time of his mother's death more than 25 years ago, were out of keeping with the tone of the preceding material and more pungently personal than warranted by his position in the public eye," the ECU said.

It was only five years old but it might just as well have been five decades old – I knew the album, with the big "NOW" on its cover, was all about celebrating what had been current at some point in the past, but that was somebody else's "now".

These resumed drivers had been current non-drivers at one time and then became current drivers again in a follow-up round (Choi & DiNitto 2016).

Since 1840, English issues have been current.

In fact that very phrase has been current since the mid-19th century.

They have been current for more than 2,000 years and have not yet exhausted their usefulness.

It has been current behind the Iron Curtain for at least a generation.

Two different notions about human origin seem to have been current in ancient Mesopotamian religions.