Sentence examples for were almost unheard of from inspiring English sources

Vegetables were almost unheard of".

"Lockouts were once so rare they were almost unheard of.

Twenty years ago, competitive telephone markets were almost unheard of.

Ms. Kozhevnikova said the online calls for the killing of a judge were almost unheard of.

When she started it, she said, "tap dance companies were almost unheard of".

Though black opera singers were almost unheard of, Gershwin never even considered casting white singers.

Before 2005, such claims were almost unheard-of.

A few decades ago, they were almost unheard-of in this country.

The chief of the association representing private job agencies in Greece, Athanassios Kottaras, said he received six or seven complaints every week (they were almost unheard-of just two years ago) from Greeks moving abroad for jobs that turn out to be nonexistent or exploitive.

Large sponsorships of any kind were almost unheard-of; today, the sport could not exist without them.

For her to do this was almost unheard-of.