Sentence examples for had been extinct from inspiring English sources
And if that wasn't difficult enough, the fish had been extinct for 30 years.
Both were part of a project to reintroduce bears to areas of Europe where they had been extinct.
And among the rocks they had with them were fossilized leaves from a tree called Glossopteris indica, which had been extinct for more than 250 million years.
In geological terms Kauai is a youthful five million years old; the Velociraptors had been extinct for at least 70 million years when it emerged in the Pacific.
A long time since she and I had been extinct, but still I found inside myself a fierce desire to go over and tell her again that it wasn't my fault — and struggled for a moment with that ridiculous urge.
*Beavers have been reintroduced in 24 European countries, including France and Bosnia *Beaver reintroduction in Sweden began with 80 animals between 1922 and 1939 *In 1997 beavers were released in Romania after they had been extinct there for 200 years.
Unlike Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian or Austroasiatic, the Hmong-Mien family is very young: any sister languages it once had are extinct.
They've been extinct for millions of years!
The animals have also recolonised parts of Scandinavia and the UK where they have been extinct for centuries.
