Example sentences of "were [adv] widely used " in BNC.

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1 Fertilizers were more widely used .
2 Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used .
3 From about 1780–1820 , binders ' tickets were fairly widely used , i.e. printed or engraved slips pasted in the front of the book .
4 Though attitude surveys were never widely used in Britain , none the less , the achievements of these researchers have inevitably influenced the work of modern survey analysts in the design and the analysis of questionnaires .
5 Casein glues were very widely used during the war in aircraft and one day somebody discovered that the tensile strength of specimens of wet casein is one-fifth of that of dry casein .
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