Sentence examples for had begun mostly from inspiring English sources

I'd been in taxis countless times with my mother since her ordeal had begun, mostly taking her to or from a chemo session, and it seemed that invariably the driver was playing a talk radio station sponsored heavily by cancer treatment centres.

Once the competition had begun, these concerns mostly fell by the wayside.

In August 2011, as the Syrian army violently suppressed an armed rebellion that had begun as a mostly peaceful uprising against Bashar al-Assad's government, Lieutenant Adnan Halit decided he'd seen enough.

Instead, there's a retreat into hazy philosophy, as when Paul reflects that "technology had begun for him to mostly only indicate the inevitability and vicinity of nothingness".

"It had begun years before, in many bars, mostly in Greenwich Village".

The night before, the price of a car journey to Amman had reached thirteen hundred dollars, and reports had begun to filter back about journalists — mostly Americans and British, but also some Spaniards and at least one Norwegian relief worker — who had run into problems with the authorities while trying to leave the country.

During World War II, small amounts of germanium had begun to be used in some special electronic devices, mostly diodes.

There's evidence that the carnage has begun, albeit mostly in a few overheated condominium markets.

The Summer Olympic Games have begun with mostly hairless, bipedal athletes vying for gold.

Conversely, Ms. Moss has begun to scatter Mostly Mozart's ambitious early-instrument offerings throughout the year.

Other prominent Afghans have begun to organize along mostly ethnic lines.