Sentence examples for had once been simple from inspiring English sources

And what had once been simple was now complicated.

The following year he was stripped of both medals when it was discovered that, in his youth, he had once been paid for playing baseball.The reasoning was simple: money would corrupt sport's purity, so there must be a rigid distinction between amateur sport, played by "gentlemen" for the sheer love of the game, and professional sport.

In simple terms, Mexican families are smaller than they had once been.

Antarctica had once been warm.

(Green had once been chairman).

He hadn't been simple.

Couldn't it have been simple, for once?

Once upon a time, it would have been simple.

The deal has been simple.

Quitting alcohol had been simpler.

"It would have been simpler".