Sentence examples for had been useful from inspiring English sources

In contrast, both the 1991 and 2001 censuses had been useful for telling us that there were fewer people than we thought in the UK during the 1980s and the 1990s.

These results made me feel like the approach had been useful, and I have continued to use elements of it in other classes, as the situation and time allow.

Conceding that promotional rates had been useful in spur ring economic growth, he added.

He said that it had been useful to start out in chess rather than poker.

Moussa said international interest in Kony had been "useful, very important".

Brahimi was even more terse, saying little more than that discussions had been "useful".

A third man said the crisis had been useful in some ways.

Whitney also shipped equipment that had been useful during her own rehabilitation.

She added that the meetings had been useful and that Random House was reviewing a possible new boilerplate contract.

Mr. Bezos figured that what had been useful to Amazon would be valuable to other businesses, too.

The government's policy of low wages had been useful to the Communists in stirring up discontent among the workers.