Sentence examples for had been mass from inspiring English sources

The shadow chancellor appealed for calm, saying there had been "mass hysteria" since Britain voted to leave the EU.

They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants," Dawah told his relatives.

The first samples were taken from a creek in a forest area in the West where there had been mass spraying of DDT for the control of the spruce budworm.

The authors of this study in Nature Communications, led by Gil Atzmon of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, noted that there had been mass conversions to Judaism in the early Roman empire, resulting in some 6 million citizens, or 10 percent of the population, practicing Judaism.

A Ouattara spokesman, Apollinaire Yapi, said there had been numerous "rallyings" by Gbagbo forces to the opposition camp, and Mr. Ouattara's prime minister, Guillaume Soro, told the television station France 24 that there had been "mass defections in the police, the gendarmerie and the army".

"They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants".

We can be fairly sure that if KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON had been mass-produced, it would have infuriated those who were being implored to be calm.

Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, said the new missile, first unveiled a month ago and known as the Qader, which means Able in Farsi, had been mass-produced "as quickly as possible," the country's state-run media reported.

Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, said the new missile, first unveiled a month ago and known as the Qader, which means able in Persian, had been mass-produced "as quickly as possible," the country's state-run media reported.

Among the family heirlooms that Charles Darwin inherited, symbolically speaking, was a china cameo depicting a black slave in chains, asking "Am I not a man and a brother?" The image had been mass-produced as a campaigning device, some 20 years before Charles's birth, by his grandfather, the potter Josiah Wedgwood.

By 5 30 the next morning, German troops that had been massing on the border marched into Austria, meeting no resistance.