Sentence examples for had largely completed from inspiring English sources

The government undertook a vast program of reconstructing the devastated areas and had largely completed that task by 1925.

SAN FRANCISCO — John T. Chambers, chief executive of Cisco Systems, said Wednesday that he had largely completed the task of reshaping the company, a maker of the gear that runs the Internet.

Back in the 1870's, by which time the British had largely completed their global network of railways and steamships, it still took a minimum of 80 days to go around the world, as Jules Verne celebrated in the story of Phileas Fogg.

At that time, it had largely completed the privatization of state-owned copper mines that had been incurring huge losses even as they provided the country's sole source of foreign exchange and had come to be seen as a font of patronage.

Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told its governing board that North Korea had "largely completed work on the exterior of the main buildings" of a new nuclear reactor under construction in the North's main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, according to Reuters.

Although education is not, strictly speaking, fixed or predetermined, the 30- to 59-year-olds who make up our sample had largely completed their formal education more than 5 years earlier.

Australia, Britain, Italy and the Nordics have largely completed the transition.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has largely completed its own three-year investigation of the C.I.A. interrogation program, but its report is still classified and its conclusions are not yet known.

By the time it arrives in August for the start of the Olympic Games, Beijing will have largely completed a transformation from a staid seat of government to a modern metropolis.

An affiliate of Spinnaker Real Estate Partners of Norwalk, Conn., for example, has largely completed a $250 million conversion of an old mall and surrounding buildings into an entertainment, retail, residential and hotel district, Mercantile Exchange, that is a 10-minute walk from Busch Stadium.

It's a rarity in other ways too: When the sitcom's second season starts on Wednesday, it will have largely completed a critically successful transformation from a high-concept premise — 40-something "cougar" dates 20-something men (focusing on Ms. Cox's recently divorced character) — into an ensemble show examining adult friendships.