Sentence examples for much ceased from inspiring English sources

The rest of me was irrelevant, and indeed before long it had pretty much ceased to exist.

Business, admittedly, had pretty much ceased on November 27th, when Enron lost its investment-grade credit rating, raising doubts that it would honour its trades.According to Enron's own accounting, profits from Internet trading in the 12 months before the collapse were $2.3 billion: that would have made the division, by itself, one of the 50 most profitable companies in America.

If you abolished all quangos, the arts in Britain would pretty much cease to exist in their current form.

The evening marked the first time this pre-eminent music festival has devoted an entire program to the work of a composer-lyricist, but Mr. Sondheim has been feted pretty much without cease in the year that he turned 80. (His actual birthday was in March).

An estimated 160,000 households went dark, hospitals turned to emergency generators and much commercial activity ceased.

By 1909 water levels had dropped so much that navigation ceased; the lake reached a low point of only 2 feet (0.6 metre) deep in 1940.

Historically, there was granite and slate quarrying, and there are deposits of lead, copper ore, and pyrites, though much production has ceased.

The words 'James' and 'Beard' are thrown around so much, I've ceased to know what they even mean.

The state and its citizens were the common subject of jokes to the eastern states, but much of that ceased after the war.

Consistently, primary stem growth ceased much earlier in lhp1 mutants than in wild-type plants, but later in lhp1-7 CD*) than in lhp1-6 null) (Fig. 6B, C).

The newsboys' union didn't disband so much as it simply ceased to be.