Sentence examples for it once constituted from inspiring English sources

Though SAP makes only 2.5% of the fund's holdings now, von Gaudecker has held it since the early 1990s, and it once constituted as much as 8%.

It has alienated the independents who once constituted Mr McCain's base.

Where tenure once constituted a pledge to pay a person's salary for life, it now constitutes, in the acerbic definition I've heard from some medical school professors, a mere "license to go out and fund your own salary".

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases.

It will be a five-story deluge of pickup trucks and doorframes and cinder blocks and fishing boats and utility poles and everything else that once constituted the coastal towns of the Pacific Northwest.

Bohuslav Sobotka, Robert Fico: Czech Republic and Slovakia  The two member states that once constituted Czechoslovakia have very similar views on all the pillars of the British renegotiation "ask".

British buyers once constituted the vast majority, but their numbers have decreased with slippage in the value of the British pound, he said.

Having once constituted a segment of the ancient continent of Gondwana, that land is the oldest and most geologically stable in India.

The exiled King Zog and Queen Geraldine of the Albanians occupied an entire floor of the Ritz, where gossip declared that they paid their bills in bullion that had once constituted the gold reserves of their nation.

A few cobblestoned blocks away, where bloody carcasses on hooks once constituted the entire retail landscape, DESTINATION (32-36 Little West 12th St.; 727-2031) carries outré accessories to rival whatever Jeffrey has on tap.

The professors themselves complain that their students are spending ever more time looking for jobs and ever less time studying.These problems are already taking their toll on the two-year courses that once constituted the ideal of business education.