Sentence examples for virtually dormant from inspiring English sources

Nearly $2 billion in gold was extracted from the earth before mining became virtually dormant.

The budget for new homes has been cut by half, at a time when the building industry is virtually dormant.

The NPA has been, well, the opposite - a largely supine body, at times virtually dormant, at other times riven by internal conflict.

Mr. Hartley told them that RKO, by then virtually dormant, was looking in its archives to remake some of its classic films for television and movie theaters.

Wright had three hits and three runs batted in, and Reyes scampered around for two runs to pace an offense that too often had been virtually dormant when Santana pitched.

An ambitious Western-backed program to lure the fighters away with job training and guarantees of security lies virtually dormant — the result, American officials say, of the failure of Afghan officials to carry it out.

Conservative Democrats are nearly dormant.

Lying dormant in virtually every digital cable box in America is technology that can prevent viewers from recording certain programs to watch them later.

Most were hitherto dormant Socialist supporters.

What we'd expect to see given a prolonged, large output gap is precisely what we have seen wage growth that is virtually flat and inflation that remains fairly dormant even during bursts of rapid output growth.

Encysted taeniid metacestodes can remain dormant for years before asexual multiplication (13 ); thus, this animal could have become infected at virtually any point in its life.