Example Sentences

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For a country constantly battling the elements, it may come as a surprise that flood insurance is not so well-advanced.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2017

Sutcliffe then approached Joe Christle, who revealed that a plan was already well-advanced, and invited him to be a part of it.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2016

“But when you look at the big data and bioinformatics capacity, there are a ton of companies in Northern Virginia who are extremely sophisticated and well-advanced; they’ve just been working on cybersecurity or weather forecasting.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2015

Many directors, meanwhile, were kept in the dark about discussions with Prudential until the talks were well-advanced.

From Reuters • Dec. 21, 2010

Mistaken local interests but too often wrecked well-advanced plans, and what road-building was done during the colonial times was almost entirely left to individual exertion, without any direct aid from the government.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William