Sentence examples for were at one stage from inspiring English sources

An ill-disciplined Swansea were at one stage reduced to six players in their 2-1 extra-time defeatoto Scunthorpe.

They took the risks for high profits (which there were at one stage) so they must now accept that their shares are worthless, or virtually so.

Crime was down by 31% compared with the previous year, and some crime is inevitable, but still there were, at one stage, bottles and missiles thrown at police and 280 arrests.

Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.

In reply they were at one stage 79 for two and 11 overs later 105 for seven before a combination of Ravi Bopara's cool head and some slices of luck for Stuart Broad saw them home with 31 balls to spare.

Various means of capturing this were trialled and then discarded or modified (for example, key components were at one stage depicted as interlocking cogs but later discarded as it drew criticisms of appearing too mechanistic).

In 1985, when he became very ill with pneumonia, he was at one stage placed on a life support machine.

Joining was free, and you could get a princely 15MB of web space; it's claimed that it was, at one stage, the third most-browsed site on the web.

Conservative MP Mark Field, a member of the all-party group on Azerbaijan and its former chair, was at one stage being paid £6,000 a year by the society for his advice.

The lawyer was at one stage feted by the authorities.

Tlass was at one stage close to Bashar al-Assad.