Everybody used to think of Bilbao as this strange little enclave with some violent political movement.
Insect experts didn't used to think they had a lot to offer the scientists.
Scientists used to think T. rex stood tall, but they abandoned that idea decades ago.
We used to think just maybe we could build a business that might make a million dollars.
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"Many of us used to think of AIDS as a health issue, " Wolfensohn told the Security Council.
We used to think that as the world developed then everyone would end up getting their own PC.
Well, we used to think of the housing market, the one where prices only went up, the same way.
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Old-fashioned economists used to think that this sort of thing was what kept the Invisible Hand waggling lucratively away.
Doctors used to think that whooping cough was a problem only for kids.
The majority of adults who have it don't know it because people used to think ADD was only a children's condition.
"We used to think, 'let's wait' even though we wanted to buy, " says one shopper, carrying a bag from Louis Vuitton.
We used to think of opinion as an analytical entity, something a pollster might collect from time to time, like during elections.
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Besides, we used to think terrorists were Arab-looking guys with funny accents.
'I used to think, oh, it's a nuclear missile', he told me.
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Markets send embarrassing messages about how, where and at what price capital should be allocated best to ignore them, Japan used to think.
Middle-class people used to think their lives unfolded in an orderly progression.
When I was little, I used to think that my grandfather was so strange because he always had a pantry full of non-perishables.
Thirty, forty, years ago we used to think that this was going to be an inevitable part of the development of other countries.
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Researchers used to think of heart attacks as being the result of a simple mechanical process, the gradual clogging of the arteries with fatty gunk.
People used to think of bowling centers as typically rundown places.
Scientists used to think of genes as simply recipes for proteins.
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He said the closely held firm's executives used to think their oversight of the factory's output was relatively sophisticated, though they were relying on paper-based systems.
Still, Mr. Fayad says he used to think a 3.5-inch cellphone screen was just right, until he tried the iPhone 5, which has a 4-inch screen.
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"The good news is that chocolate is not as bad as we used to think, and may even lower the risk of heart disease and stroke, " says Buijsse.
One thing left for him to do: fix the high-end disk drive business, where the company used to think it was going to make all of its money.
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