Sentence examples for past importance from inspiring English sources

Their home is in Long Sutton, a town in south Lincolnshire with an air of past importance, whose church has the tallest wooden spire in Europe.

Sebald was drawn to East Anglia by these very anachronisms, by physical evidence of the passage of time and the steady drift toward irrelevance that belied its past importance.

Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard became a major long-distance traffic route, and  had eight diners as a reminder of this past importance.

Until the building of the bypass, the principle road in the settlement was B1426 Sunderland Road; a former turnpike road and tram route where civic and commercial buildings still stand as a testament to the road's past importance.

Due to its past importance for the industrial production of the bulk chemicals acetone and butanol (Jones 2001; Jones and Woods 1986) and its potential for future solvent production, e.g., especially with respect to n-butanol as promising bio-based liquid fuel with several advantages over ethanol (Dürre 2007; Ni and Sun 2009), much research has focused on the regulation of the metabolic "shift".

The purpose of this book is to make the science of epidemic diseases accessible and understandable; to guide the general reader through the maze of contagious diseases, their past importance, the means by which we came to understand them, and how they may affect our future.

In those religions that look for guidance to the ancient past, great importance is attached to sacred books.

And however much brands may have been worth in the past, their importance may be fading.Brands, of course, vary.

While Castanea dentata (America chestnut) was a highly valued timber in the past, its importance has diminished considerably since the advent of the chestnut blight (the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica).

Nevertheless, in the past, the importance of riparian landscapes in Israel did not receive adequate attention in policy and planning.

And we have seen in the past the importance of stability and predictability in NASA and space exploration – that whenever one has a change in administration, we have seen the chaos that can be caused by the cancellation of major programs.