is major in vs was major in

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• In assessing whether the offence is major in scale, significance shall be attached to the following factors among others:
• There is major interest in these issues among citizens and journalists.
• What is needed is major investments in jobs, training and green change - not putting anorexic economies on a diet by means of budgetary discipline.
• It is present in major world financial centres.
• Colonel Mitchell, this is Major Marks, come in.
• Maritime tourism is a major economic activity in the Mediterranean.
• It is clear that a sound single market for energy cannot be created in an environment in which there is major inequality in the conditions of supply, in terms of price, regularity and indeed taxation.
• This report deserves my vote, because it is major step forwards in raising awareness of the complex interconnection between globalisation and the promotion of core labour standards.
• There is major economic potential in the EU's relations with Russia, which the European Union cannot afford not to tap, especially in the current global climate.
• Isn't the Major in New York?
• A railroad inspector like you'll be, is like a major in the army during the Austrian monarchy.
• This is a major part in a serious play.
• This pressure is a major element in our effort to push things in a better direction.
• This is a major development in the history of the international protection of human rights.
• Breaking and entering is a major felony in the Gem State.
• Your mother is my major opposition in the Senate.
• Setting up the European Food Safety Agency is a major step in the right direction.
• That is a major improvement in my view.
• The other is a major player in Daniels' wiretap case.
• The sergeant major is in command now.

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• I am particularly pleased that there was major progress in the Intergovernmental Conference.
• Well, that was my major in college.
• That was my major in college.
• I bet you that was her major in college - life ruining.
• There was a major in the KGB by that name.
• I... was a biology major in school.
• Robert Frost... I was a poetry major in college.
• I was a double major in Physics and Aeronautical Engineering.
• I was an art history major in college.
• It was major at that point in time, in '83.
• rapporteur. - Mr President, we could say that there was major agreement in this House over the fact that the GSP+ system is a very positive one.
• He was a math major in college who had a good heart, and decided he wanted to get a sociology PhD, came to the University of Chicago.
• So, was this your major in college?
• I'm in marketing at the network, and, actually, I was a theater major in college till I went to get my master's, you know.
• Yule was a major event in my house.
• Homicide major was in the meeting.
• Amfenac was the major metabolite in plasma, representing approximately 13% of total plasma radioactivity.
• Padovano was a major figure in the local mafia.
• Glitnir meanwhile, was experiencing major difficulties in financing its activities.
• Allowing extra time for the Special Procedures was a major improvement in Human Rights Council practices.