had predominated
- past perfect of predominate.
Example Sentences
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The multi-million dollar boats themselves are extraordinary, eye-opening craft, Alinghi 5 resembling an enormous praying mantis and BMW Oracle's boat, USA, a hollowed-out Batmobile -- unrecognizable from the keel boats that had predominated.
From Reuters ● Feb. 4, 2010
Hitherto a sense of strangeness and wonder had predominated; a morbid curiosity and a desire for sensationalism had possessed the minds and hearts of those who had witnessed the trial.
From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph
A large immigration of Quakers from England a few years after the Dutch surrender added a valuable element to the population, in which the Puritans, apart from the Dutch, had predominated.
From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Mann, Henry
Up to now, distrust of Beaumaroy had predominated.
From The Secret of the Tower by Hope, Anthony
The poetry of Pope and his followers, a school of French poetry invigorated by English understanding, which had predominated from the last century, consisted of prose thoughts translated into poetic language.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
