Sentence examples for had been spread for from inspiring English sources

Pliny sat down on a sail that had been spread for him and could not rise even with assistance when his friends departed.

The longer life estimates were applied only to countries where the disease had been spreading for at least that long.

By then, the virus had been spreading for months.

By the time health authorities understood that we were in the midst of an Ebola outbreak, the virus had been spreading for months and across multiple international borders.

In this agricultural area, urban waste water has been spread for more than 100 years by flooding irrigation for food crop production and has led to high levels of metal pollution in the surface horizons of the soils.

Yet such games have been spreading for a while.

While Mr. Bernanke and others are waiting for the official diagnosis (a decline in the gross domestic product for two successive quarters), the disease is spreading and has been spreading for some time.

"Although Emwazi's death won't incur Isis territorial losses, it'll almost certainly heighten a sense of internal security paranoia that has been spreading for several months now," he said.

The same year, a news article began, "There has been spreading for some time an idea or hypothesis among the more philosophic medical men, and among the thoughtful 'laity,' that many species of disease have their sources in, and are scattered by, seeds or germs".

Wildfires have been spreading for weeks in the Southeast, where a severe drought persists.

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