Sentence examples for had existed as from inspiring English sources

After the final demise of the non-avian dinosaurs and some other reptilian groups at the end of the Cretaceous, mammals (which had existed as long as the dinosaurs throughout much of the Mesozoic) began to radiate, and an array of early mammals, themselves doomed to fairly early extinction, effectively took their place eventually to be replaced by early members of modern mammalian groups.

The first American national intercollegiate boxing tournament was held in 1932, but boxing had existed as an intramural sport in the United States since the 1880s.

West Germany had existed as an entity since 1949, but the historian Joachim Fest reckoned the day of the game marked the "true birth of the country".

This was the New York that had existed as a part of his rural imagination, before he graduated from Harvard and moved to Astoria.

The consolidation of the Shvetambara-Digambara division was probably the result of a series of councils held to codify and preserve the Jain scriptures, which had existed as oral tradition long after Mahavira's death.

For roughly two centuries, Israel had existed as a loose confederation of tribes, dependent for their unity upon bonds of religious faith and covenant that were renewed periodically in cultic ceremonies at the central shrine at Shiloh.

"It has existed as long as the country has existed.

Of course, summits have existed as long as leaders have.

Cancer has existed as long as humans have.

"It's something that has existed as long as time," he replied.

Collaboration has not always been a byword in art restoration, which has existed as long as there has been art.