Sentence examples for once major from inspiring English sources

These certified tearjerkers were once major online events.

Once Major Remus was ordered to leave, fighting over the area resumed.

Brewing and tanning, once major industries in Kingston, no longer exist there.

Some once major groups have splintered into numerous small, and particularly vicious gangs.

Ultrawealthy individuals, once major investors in funds of funds, have yet to return full force since 2008.

Tens of thousands of vacancies blot the residential map in major, or once major, Great Lakes cities like Youngstown, Ohio; Flint, Mich., and Buffalo.

Elsewhere on the East End, once-major figures who seemed to be forgotten for a while are subtly moving back into market focus.

Such draconian job cuts will continue, the analysts said, as banks try to wring more profits from simple lending and retail banking operations, particularly because once-major moneymakers like complex derivatives are restricted by regulation.

"And I went, 'Ewww, my appetite is over.' " That reaction was precisely what Thek (pronounced tek), a once-major figure in the New York art scene who died in relative obscurity in 1988, would have wanted, she said.

The mix is eerily quiet, with far fewer retweets and likes than the current time — Twitter hadn't yet introduced the 'automatic' retweet, people were still doing it manually — and no nested replies or link previews, while there are ghosts of once-major social media services, such as TwitPic, TinyURL.

Once a major producer of raw materials, the company is now a major supplier of fabricated products.