Sentence examples for once existed before from inspiring English sources

During the 1990s, a gentrification of sorts took place across the whole of the central area of the capital, as businessmen bought up kommunalki from their multiple owners, offering each of the families their own place to live somewhere on the outskirts of town and recreating the huge, luxurious apartments that had once existed before the Soviets kicked out their initial inhabitants.

We sacrifice our sense of identity as it once existed, before deciding to accept the role of "mother" in a show that will never close.

It created a forest where tidal mudflats had once existed.

So why didn't it exist before?

Safer hypodermic needles that can only be used once exist.

The most enjoyable works of fiction present us with convincing worlds; we believe our favourite characters existed before "once upon a time" and go on existing after the final full stop.

I know it has long existed before Once Upon A Time, certainly we had received some heat over Glee and The Vampire Diaries fandoms in the past and present as well, but nothing on this level.

"Sticker shock existed before, but once you throw in the currency conversions on top of that, it's pretty stark," he said.

Natasha, briefly reunited with her sister in Volchansk between the two wars, painstakingly draws, where a window once was, the view that existed before the landscape was reduced to rubble.

Technology now lets us tell everyone everything at once, but we still value a network that existed before the Web: the grapevine.

It's one of those creations that, once you see it, you wonder why it never existed before.