Sentence examples for had only existed from inspiring English sources

The fund was announced last June, and charged two bodies which had only existed for weeks – clinical commissioning groups and health and wellbeing boards – with overseeing preparations.

Shakespeare started writing for a theatre industry which had only existed for 15 years and which was widely derided as vulgar, licentious and coarse.

It had only existed for four months, its campaign budget was a fraction of those of the other parties, and it received almost no media coverage (something that has radically changed since).

And on that day in August, it enabled packets that had only existed as radio signals in a wireless network to become electrical signals in the wired network of Arpanet.

"Born into exile and separated from our own kind, we were reassembling in a place that had only existed in the imagination, the 'new City of Friends' conjured by Walt Whitman a hundred years before".

As Václav Klaus, then Czech prime minister, and Vladimír Mečiar, his Slovak counterpart, negotiated the breakup of a country which itself had only existed since 1918, Mr Havel resigned as president before returning as head of state for an independent Czech Republic.

Unlike Iran, which has been in existence for thousands of years, the modern state of Israel has only existed for six decades, he said.

"We have not lived, we have only existed," she said.

Blogs have only existed under a Labour government.

But chocolate as we know it has only existed for a short time.

Cathleen ni Houlihan may have only existed in the imagination of a myth-prone people.