Sentence examples for had largely collapsed from inspiring English sources

Apalachicola's oyster fishery had largely collapsed even before the hurricane.

By the turn of the 20th century, the fishery had largely collapsed, and along with it the island's economy.

Constructing such spheres of wonder, however, proved technologically difficult, and by the mid-nineteen-nineties the field of virtual reality had largely collapsed.

Then, once the caldera had largely collapsed, this wall of easily eroded tuffs failed, allowing the sea to rush in, accelerated by retrogressive landsliding into the caldera (Fig. 6d).

"We should be prepared for thousands and thousands of dead and injured". Years of political strife and a devastating 2008 hurricane season have left Haiti a volatile nation with battered roads, a weak public health system and a landscape of slums that witnesses said Wednesday had largely collapsed across the capital.

By 28 July, the German defenses across the U.S. front had largely collapsed under the full weight of VII and VIII Corps' advance, and resistance was disorganised and patchy.

In a region where authority has largely collapsed, its own administration remains intact.

Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg's much ballyhooed FWD.us has largely collapsed.

Local governments in those places have largely collapsed, leaving the army as the only source of authority.

On the one hand, the old sexual culture, oriented around arranged marriage and family obligation, has largely collapsed.

The report also warns that Federal funds for supercomputing have largely collapsed since the breakup of the Soviet Union.