Sentence examples for had been large from inspiring English sources

Two months before, on September 4th, there had been large demonstrations in Teheran to mark the end of Ramadan.

The city's heroin trade had been large, but stable since the sixties, and the demand for marijuana, although it peaked in the early seventies, has also remained strong.

Companies involved in the buildup that had been large buyers of Nortel's switches and fiber optic gear suddenly came under financial strain and slowed purchases.

Previously, he said, while he and his family had been large political donors to Republican causes, he had never contributed to an environmental group.

The Local Coordination Committees said in an e-mail that the shelling was concentrated in two neighborhoods where there had been large protests, Janoub al-Mala'ab and Manakh.

To help countries, mostly in Asia, that had been large customers for Iranian oil, Saudi Arabia both increased production and reportedly provided discounts on oil sales.

Haji Daud, a tribal elder who recently fled Sangin to Lashkar Gah, confirmed there had been large-scale attacks against government forces over the past few days.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (Reuters) — Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her allies won a huge parliamentary majority in Bangladesh's first election in seven years, officials said Tuesday, but her longtime rival said that there had been large-scale ballot-rigging.

But the recovery probably would have proceeded more rapidly if the fiscal program had been larger.

If the rural sub-sample had been larger other relationships may have emerged.

His footprint has been large.