Sentence examples for was once needed from inspiring English sources

With the new technology, retailers can analyze data to identify trends for specific employees, stores or entire regions, a far cry from the cumbersome detective work that was once needed.

Meanwhile, candlelight vigils continued to be held and online petitions were started to permanently close the 4.8 hectare (12 acre) hillside zoo where tigers pace about in tiny cages, a crane was once needed to haul out an elephant stuck in a trench, and thieves have been known to steal valuable species at night.

Where a structured criminal association was once needed to commit cross-border crimes, in many instances this is no longer the case.

Heads were once needed to sanctify a new common house and in a host of other ceremonies.

Agents were once needed to sell tokens to customers, but the agency has been closing the agents' booths for nearly a decade.

Even new-fangled information-economy jobs like I.T. departments are now endangered by systems like Amazon's back-end A.W.S. infrastructure, which provides one-stop cloud-based solutions where a team of on-site computer wizards were once needed.

While "dozens of pages were once needed on the House floor to deliver a steady stream of phone messages" to lawmakers, the leaders wrote, most members of Congress now rely on their mobile phones for instant communication.

This is a corrective that top business school students (as your writer was, once) really need to hear.

Judicial restraint is once again needed.

The toilets were once urgently needed to relieve the pressure on bladders from all those crates of ale consumed aboard excursion trains without corridors.

It was also suggested that further technological advances were once again needed to assess performance in large scale clinical trials [ 29].