Sentence examples for once very much from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Ayatollah Saanei was once very much a part of the religious establishment in the early days of the revolution.

Illustrating for and watching the series was doubly meaningful for him, Mr. Sanders said, because "Mad Men" depicts a world he was once very much a part of.

I was once very much like the clock-building Ahmed Mohamed in Irving, Texas, a precocious, studious child who tried to impress my teachers and fellow students.

Little do they realize that under the mask, beneath the armor, lie the beating hearts, the transmogrified flesh and isotopic blood, of a creature who was once very much human, just like them.

Based on forensic work after Bolívar's exhumation in 2010, which was televised live, the portrait shoved the nation's historical memory into strange territory as we all wrestled with an image that seemed to look at once very much and not at all like the official portraits that have stared back at us from our currency throughout our lives.

Distilling was once very much a part of American farm life.

"This makes something that was once very difficult much easier, because you won't need expensive equipment," says Andrew Barrows, president and founder of Nav3D, a Palo Alto, CA-based company that develops graphical location displays.

Yet he is once again very much in control of Italy.

His homecoming leaves the Jets, once again, very much in the lurch.

With its boundless mountains that drop straight into the Adriatic, Montenegro is, as Lord Byron once declared, very much the "most beautiful merging of land and sea".

This makes it as massive as the sun, and no wonder: it's the corpse of a star that once looked very much like the sun, lying nine hundred or so light-years from Earth.