Sentence examples for which once numbered from inspiring English sources

The church's congregation — which once numbered in the hundreds — dwindled.

That's less than half of American bases in Iraq alone, which once numbered 110, now about 75.

Its staff, which once numbered 50, is down to a dozen, and its budget has shrunk to $7 million from $10 million in 2009.

Yet the Saturday night crowds at the speedway, which once numbered in the thousands, often barely reached 1,000 in recent seasons.

Populations of Jews in Arab lands, which once numbered nearly 1 million, have been reduced to only a few thousand, having been persecuted to the point of expulsion or flight in the past century.

The evacuation of Khirbat Yanun, a village southeast of Nablus which once numbered 150 people, is the first case in memory in which harassment by Jewish settlers has emptied an entire Palestinian community.

In the park, researchers documented that as the lion's population surged (it nearly tripled from less than 50 to nearly 200 between 1966 and 1998 because of increasing numbers of prey, particularly wildebeest), the wild dogs, which had once numbered about 50, declined.

He planned to rehabilitate Napster as a paid-for service, but most of its fans which once numbered some 50m have since deserted it to a rash of other sites that have sprung up to offer free music and video-swapping services.

They once numbered in the millions.

Much of the production and office work that requires moderate training, which once employed vast numbers of workers without college degrees, has disappeared, either shipped abroad or offloaded on robots and computers.

One continuing issue is Noah Webster School, which once had an even number of black and white children, but is now primarily black.