Sentence examples for was then tiny from inspiring English sources

Leeds' black population, mostly comprised of single young men, was then tiny.

The early audience for fiction was drawn from what was then a tiny middle class.

In 2004, it acquired a small stake in Baidu, which was then a tiny start-up.

"They really did sell a hundred thousand copies of that in what was then a tiny little country.

A few months later, he started working part time at what was then a tiny prison museum space near Huntsville's courthouse.

Israel's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, offered what was then a tiny group of Haredim the chance to let its brightest sons do such study full time instead of serving in the army, partly because the group had been nearly destroyed by the Holocaust and partly because early Zionists believed the Haredim lifestyle would eventually disappear in the face of modernity.

Ruth is survived by her husband of 61 years, Joseph Arnold, of Manhattan, her son Richard of Los Angeles, CA, and daughter Deborah of Manhattan Beach, CA. Ruth grew up in what was then the tiny town of South Hampton, the daughter of Sarah and Alex with her sister Cele.

Almost a century earlier, in 1893, Harry's grandfather had helped sink the mine, living in a wooden hut on what was then a tiny hamlet amid green fields, before raising a family to bring coal from the pit he built.

I visited what was then the tiny Selma Voting Rights Museum at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

But it was then such a tiny, flickering blip on the new president's political radar, the official said today, that some aides thought it could be handled through an announcement or written statement by the Department of Health and Human Services.

That speech was then segmented into tiny pieces called half-phones; phones are the smallest sounds that make up speech, but of course they can be said in different ways — rising, falling, quicker, slower, with more or less aspiration, that kind of thing.