Sentence examples for once substantial from inspiring English sources

Hauliers too found their profits, once substantial, cut to the bone.

As yet, none of the Republican contenders has managed to look at once substantial, serious, and sane.

At the same time, the fact that Mr. McHugh's departure would at least temporarily reduce New York's once substantial Republican delegation in the House to a total of two members was a vivid reminder of the party's steep decline in the Northeast.

Analysts say Mr. Gbagbo's troops could probably outgun them; the only force in the middle are the United Nations troops and police officers, in place since the end of the civil war, and the 900-man remnant of the once substantial French military presence here, supporting the United Nations troops.

Once substantial plastic deformation of the substrate has occurred, the maximum tensile stresses are located behind the contact at a distance of 0.5 1 times the contact length from the back edge of the contact.

The roof – a thin plane of concrete render over steel – appeared to float over the structure, creating the extraordinary effect of a building that was at once substantial and ethereal.  .

He was referring to Mr. Romney's once-substantial lead in Iowa, which Mr. Huckabee has erased.

But the once-substantial public support promised for Rutgers has steadily fallen.

A poll released today even shows Mr. Nader cutting into Mr. Gore's once-substantial lead in California.

But it has been a strange few weeks for the Yankees, whose once-substantial lead in the American League East has been cut in half, and then some.

But its once-substantial role turns out to be a mixed and complicated tale, as thoroughly chronicled in Catherine Robson's new "Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem".