The part of the sentence "were of local origin" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when describing something that comes from the area one is living in. For example: The ingredients used in the dish were of local origin.
Countries like France, where 40% of movies shown on TV must be of local origin and 60% of European origin, benefit most strongly from protectionist measures that could be outlawed under a blanket free trade deal.
These influences are of local origin and are capable of completely masking the response of PG to GEC diurnal variation.
The latter pigments, can have been of local origin, or might have been imported, depending on the period of the painting.
The results show not only a marked heterogeneity of preferences but also a consistent consumer segment willing to pay a relevant premium price for meals made from a prevalence of products certified as being of local origin.
Patients were from Sweden (118 patients: 13.6% men, 86.4% women) and Finland (86 patients: 29.1% men, 70.9% women), both being of local origin.
Three cases in July were considered to be of local origin (0.4%).
The study by Guzman et al (1988) suggests that a portion of ascitic Igs could be of local origin as AF contains both B cells and plasma cells (Nakamura et al, 1978).
This is in with what would be expected in the context of a state sponsored pilgrimage of capacocha, in which ceramic offerings carried to the summit of a mountain were customarily brought from Cusco or the Bolivian highlands, while utilitarian pottery used at base-camp could be of local origin.
Herodotus, for example, argued that the Etruscans descended from a people who invaded Etruria from Anatolia before 800 bce and established themselves over the native Iron Age inhabitants of the region, whereas Dionysius of Halicarnassus believed that the Etruscans were of local Italian origin.
A second theory on Etruscan origins was proposed by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who rejected the tradition of Herodotus, pointing out that the Lydian language and customs and those of the Etruscans were greatly dissimilar; he argued that the Etruscans were autochthonous (of local origin).
