Sentence examples for once widespread from inspiring English sources

Once widespread, the population fell below 700 between 1930 and 1950.

Japan's once widespread copper ore reserves are no longer worked, and the Philippines has limited reserves.

Hiding the results of negative clinical trials was once widespread in the drug industry.

As they have dwindled in extent, many once widespread animals and plants have become endangered.

Its population was once widespread but persecution almost led to extinction in the UK.

Those denials proved false, once widespread testing for the disease was introduced.

Once widespread, devil populations became more isolated, inbred and genetically similar.

*The beaver was once widespread in Britain but died out by the 17th century, probably from over-zealous hunting.

And the once-widespread wall butterfly was largely absent from central England.

The once-widespread rumor that sex with a virgin cures AIDS has faded (as has a local rumor that sex with a pygmy is a cure).

It was probably a lone relic of some once-widespread species which had covered extensive areas of the earth's surface – somewhere between a ginkgo and a magnolia.