Sentence examples for had stayed mainly on from inspiring English sources
The rebels have a history of human rights abuses and had stayed mainly on the sidelines of the political crisis.
The rain, it transpired, had stayed mainly in Andorra.
In Norway the between-school variation has fluctuated but stayed mainly on the same level during the period 2000 2009, with regard to the reading results in PISA (Kjærnsli and Roe 2010).
We stayed mainly on the Ukrainian side, but had received permission to enter the "alienated zone" in Belarus.
What if the lights had stayed on?
On 13 November they had stayed shut.
He has stayed on as chairman.
To my astonishment, the so-called French Hitchcock then launches into song: "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain".
Well, the adage of "rain staying mainly on the plain" does not exactly work here.
While TLC's response seems appropriate, it's surprising it took them even this long – a show in which a convicted paedophile is introduced to a cast of mainly minors could never have stayed on the air.
