Oxygen levels were so low in l987 and again last summer, she said, that fish life essentially ceased.

The Japanese aircraft engine industry essentially ceased to exist after this time.

Cotton farming essentially ceased in the county by the mid 1970s.

At this point, the Protestant Union had essentially ceased to exist.

For much of the 90's, speculative construction essentially ceased.

But by 1990, with back taxes looming, she sold the theater to a Texas developer, and her company essentially ceased to exist.

Except as a legal entity, the University of Michigan had essentially ceased to exist.

After the frontier moved further westward, the military threat in inland Georgia essentially ceased.

Bhangra as a "folk" dance of villages essentially ceased at this time.

The plant essentially ceased operations for two months.