Sentence examples for there were largely from inspiring English sources

When Baghdad fell, the study said, American forces there "were largely mechanized or armored forces, well suited to waging major battles but not to restoring civil order.

Last year, you mentioned that Chile was a smaller economy with good growth but that the stocks there were largely overpriced.

The rich resources found there were largely responsible for a boundary dispute between Norway and Russia.

ONCE upon a time there were largely two kinds of master's degrees: one was a way station to a doctorate and the other overqualified you to be underpaid as a social worker or helped you get a salary bump as a public school teacher.

Silicon Valley became a big deal – admittedly after decades – because people there were largely in tech.

Sadly, from the Democrats, there were largely softball questions, punctuated by lavish praise for Sotomayor's personal story and her "mainstream" legal philosophy.

Although the guard force there is largely unchanged, new managers run it.

— The Queen's subjects there are largely unaware of the Magna Carta, first signed by King John in 1215.

Where once every reverse saw the airwaves crackle with Labour MPs attacking the leadership, now there is largely silence.

They are an even bigger test of this than the Korean Peninsula, for the security equation there is largely frozen, whereas in Afghanistan and Pakistan it is very volatile indeed, as circumstances surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden have emphasized.

Officials there are largely clueless about it.