Only a handful of earldoms had existed under Henry I and these had been largely symbolic in nature.

The Socialist Party had existed since 1875, but it never had representation in Parliament.

When the waters subsided, it was as if it had never existed.

If such a settlement existed, however, no trace of it has been discovered.

You saw sites that had never existed before getting huge amounts of traffic.

The war destroyed much of the wealth that had existed in the South.

After the English Restoration, the Act of Seclusion, which had not remained a secret for very long, was declared void as the English Commonwealth (with which the treaty had been concluded) no longer existed.

Freedom of speech had existed since Brazil's independence and was strongly defended by Pedro II.

Indeed, almost all taboos that existed after the eruption of the crisis have now been abolished.

When these were all occupied, limited space existed for such wide ranging diversifications to occur again, because strong competition existed in all niches and incumbents usually had the advantage.

He never existed.

Such proprietary software had existed before, and it became apparent that it would become the norm.

The hill has been called the Vatican Hill (in Latin, Mons Vaticanus ) since long before Christianity existed.

The little fragments of information that did manage to get through got elevated to a level of ennunciative power that would not have existed had the internet not been shut down.

Lafayette later boasted that he had become an American citizen before the concept of French citizenship existed.

The USA had a racist society when black people had to sit at the back of busses, and before that when slavery existed.

Some characters actually existed.

God has always existed.

Chirac acknowledged the racism that had existed in France and said that the reinterment in the Pantheon had been a way of correcting that wrong, as Alexandre Dumas was enshrined alongside fellow great authors Victor Hugo and Émile Zola.

How would netizens have followed the coup d'etat of September 11, 1973 in Chile if Twitter had existed?

You've been had.

You've been had.

Some say he never existed.

I didn't know it existed.

hierarchy existed before Usenet reorganization.

Below that there existed divisions.

Although sometimes regarded as foreign elements in Roman culture, music and dance had existed in Rome from earliest times.

The new universe may be different in structure, but has been made with what existed in the old one, e.g.

Rumors have existed since the 1930s that Hepburn may have been a lesbian or bisexual, which she often joked about.

Louis had been close to his wife, who had been involved in policymaking.

The era of absolute monarchy replaced the limited and decentralized monarchies that had existed in most of the Middle Ages.

He had been embarrassed.

He had been inconvenienced.

Did you know that data existed?

Me only existed in the trying.

I don't believe Atlantis ever existed.

Over 50 such clone models existed.

A similar system existed in Vietnam.

Because I thought that had been eradicated in the way that smallpox had been eradicated.

If the latter, that would mean that the Portuguese had at least some hint that a land existed to the west.

即墨雅泰侯屹 The practice of KFC chicken farms has been existed in China for at least 10 years.

However, variants of the idea existed previously, and have been devised subsequently such as supertype and subtype data entities and commonality relationships.

On April 25, Congress declared that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain had existed since April 21, the day the blockade of Cuba had begun.

Vitamins had not been invented.

It had been presumed before.