Sentence examples for held that more from inspiring English sources

Quite a few geographers held that more scientific exploration would have to be undertaken before the Nile wa settled.

In 2012 some estimates held that more than 2,800 people had been killed by Boko Haram or by the security forces pursuing the group.

The conventional wisdom among development specialists has long held that more lives are saved in poor countries — and the cost is cheaper — by focusing on the easiest people to reach.

By the end of the year, some estimates held that more than 10,000 people had been killed, and and more than 650,000 internally displaced people had fled the conflict zone.

The charity won a test case in the supreme court last December which held that more than 65,000 letters sent by the Department for Work and Pensions threatening to recover overpayments (not false claims) through the courts were unlawful.

As I made clear in my very first letter to shareholders, we do not subscribe to the view (seemingly widely held) that more is better, or that there is a certain amount that must be spent on cap ex every year.

Singapore's late prime minister Lee Kuan Yew held that post for more than three decades.

Pakistan, which had held that position for more than a decade, was second with 1.51 million.

They held that position for three more days, during which they learned that the Germans were winning the battle.

REFLECTIONS about obsessional thinking... Writer tells about a conference of scientists from a variety of fields in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on obsessional thinking... Current estimates hold that more than two per cent of the United States population — nearly seven million people — have or have had obsessive-compulsive disorder (O.C.D).

The theory of ocean fertilization holds that more plankton would increase the ocean's capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.