The university inherited 8,800 acres that once constituted the Stanford family's stock farm.

Arab and Islamic societies once constituted the pinnacle of world civilization.

Animal husbandry which once constitute the major economic sector of the village is on the decline.

It once constituted the city limits of Detroit.

But what is dying out is the cheap wine that once constituted the largest part of the market.

Women once constituted less than 5 percent of the market; they now make up 35 percent and are the fastest-growing segment.

A united city is one which, as a consequence of political changes or border shifts, once constituted two separate entities that were later merged.

It once constituted a liberty, containing only the parish itself.

Most of the wreckage, he said, was unrecognizable as having once constituted an airplane.

Ryme once constituted a separate liberty, containing only the parish itself.