In 2010, the board, which then consisted of 16 people, was given combined compensation worth 160.3 million francs.
So Green championed the idea of consolidating the outlying cities, towns and villages into New York City, which then consisted only of Manhattan and part of the Bronx.
Although funded by the ambitious rulers of Qatar, it broke the mould of Arab journalism, which then consisted of little more than reheating official press releases.
Citing the advent of free online reference sources, Microsoft discontinued Encarta, which then consisted of more than 60,000 articles, at the end of 2009.
The explosion of techno parties coincided with the 1992 imposition of United Nations sanctions on the Yugoslav federation, which then consisted of Serbia and Montenegro, in response to the Bosnia war.
Originally Mr. Bailey had planned to hang "Girl With a Pearl Earring" in a central spot in the Oval Room along with the rest of the show, which then consisted of 10 paintings.
In 1971 Arthur F. Burns, then chairman of the Fed and an avid amateur painter, saw the Spanish bank's art treasures during a visit to Madrid and returned to Washington determined to expand the Fed's collection, which then consisted of four paintings.
The ahead-of-its-time idea (considering the popularity of budget travel tips today) sought to take on the traditional Baedeker travel guides, which then consisted primarily of hotel and restaurant listings, but lacked the insider knowledge Kafka felt was truly valuable to a traveller.
Riel's obstructionism did not block Canada's march to the west, and the dominion at once opened negotiations with delegates from British Columbia, which then consisted of Vancouver Island (organized as a colony in 1849) and the mainland to the western watershed of the Rockies.
On 20 April, the commander of Greek forces in Albania General Georgios Tsolakoglou accepted the hopelessness of the situation and offered to surrender his army, which then consisted of fourteen divisions.
