Sentence examples for then in existence from inspiring English sources

Still, in complexity and audacity of design, it dwarfed any calculating device then in existence.

That instrument was intended to inaugurate a new system of government, and the departments to which it referred were not then in existence.

Already teaching at Berkeley at the time, Chao managed to collect from China "three complete sets of all five of the editions then in existence" (Weaver 62).

Some 600 years after the historical Buddha, a new and more speculative school of Buddhism arose to challenge the 18 or 20 schools of Buddhism then in existence.

The use of instruction cards would make it a programmable device and far more flexible than any machine then in existence.

Seismographs had been set up in advance, although their readings were not transmitted electronically to the modest observatory then in existence.

According to a 2000 article in the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of International Economic Law, the U.S. government has estimated that the Nazis seized or coerced the sale of an astounding one-fifth of all Western art then in existence--over 250,000 art works.

As long as there are Jews in existence then this thing can still go on and it hasn't happened yet, so that explains the translation.

Paper and the writing brush had not been invented, and the "bamboo books" then recorded to be in existence were of limited use at best.

At one time or another, the library held about half a million scrolls, estimated to have been between 30 and 70percentt of all books in existence then.

And he wonders why he "didn't go right down and start working in the underground-film movement which was in existence then".