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“nombreux furent” in English

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Grâce au rapport, les milieux politiques et la Commission ont pu discerner clairement l'ampleur du problème alors que nombreux furent ceux qui portaient des oeillères.
Thanks to the report, the politicians and the Commission have had their eyes opened to the problem, which many had approached with blinkers on.
Nombreux furent ceux qui pensèrent que l'Europe détenait enfin la possibilité de sortir de l'unique zone de libre-échange et de l'ornière libérale pour jeter les bases d'une Europe des citoyens.
Many people thought that Europe at long last had the opportunity to emerge from the single free-trade area and the liberal rut in order to establish the foundation of a People' s Europe.
Aujourd'hui, chacun est d'avis que M. Nelson Mandela est un personnage fantastique, mais il faut se rappeler que nombreux furent ceux qui ont mis du temps à accepter son appel à l'instauration de sanctions à l'égard de la politique d'apartheid en Afrique du Sud.
Today, everyone agrees that Nelson Mandela is a wonderful person, but if the truth be told, a good many people were slow to meet his requests for sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.

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