Sentence examples for was then unknown from inspiring English sources

He was then unknown in New York and in the newspapers his name was listed without comment among the suspects.

Such a thing as a hospital corps of comely young maiden nurses, possessing grace and good looks, was then unknown.

In September, I was approached to sing at the Nobel Prize ceremony, honoring the laureate for literature, who was then unknown.

The virus was then unknown in Africa, but his work gave him clues that would later help him on its trail.

It already has a sense of life and of the relationship between the figures that was then unknown in this type of subject matter.

Unlike the case of AIDS, of course, the threat that BSE posed to human health was then unknown, and former ministers from the period claim that their statements and actions were always in accord with the contemporary scientific understanding.

Most of our modern pleasures and conveniences were then unknown.

"Powder post beetle damage was noted, but its extent and significance were then unknown".

When the majority of the cabinet thwarted his plans for a war against Korea, he resigned and founded a political club (political parties were then unknown in Japan).

In their mid-twenties, around the time that their parents were separating, the sisters created a show at the Annoyance Theatre called "The Real Live Brady Bunch": verbatim reënactments of old episodes, starring Andy Richter and Jane Lynch, who were then unknown local comedians.

With Marvell, he admits he got lucky by accepting a cold call from Weili Dai and Sehat Sutardja, who were then unknown.