Sentence examples for once far from inspiring English sources
The optimism here was once far greater.
Weren't there once far more serious single television plays?
Fact is, Ms. Peng was once far more famous than her husband.
French was once far ahead of English as a world language; now it's not.
FOR Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, their daughter seems at once far away and tantalisingly near.
The computing problems the two companies face were once far apart.
"How crazy is that?" Perhaps, it was once far-fetched.
Their perspective is at once far-sighted and clinically fascinated.
Signaling a shift toward support for shale gas development, Ukraine's minister of energy and coal, Yuri A. Boiko, met with American shale gas executives in Houston this year and announced a once far-fetched sounding goal for Ukraine to become self-sufficient in natural gas.
At the turn of the 20th Century, the once far-flung Ottoman empire was crumbling at the edges, beset by revolts among Christian subjects to the north vast swaths of territory were lost in the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the subject of coffee house grumbling among Arab nationalist intellectuals in Damascus and elsewhere.
The once far-right extremists pledging to ethnically cleanse neighboring Bosnia of Muslims find themselves in power these days as moderate pro-Europeans, preaching tolerance and Western democracy.
