The plant has been virtually extinct in the United Kingdom since the 1940s.

It became virtually extinct in the 20th century, but the population is recovering.

By 2001, mothers looking after their children at home, already a vanishing species, will be virtually extinct.

The party achieved few gains for farmers, and the group was virtually extinct by 1900.

Much has been made of the fact that the phone booth is virtually extinct in New York.

So he makes his own, a skill he says is virtually extinct.

Manchu culture and language, on the contrary, has become virtually extinct by 2007.

By the early 1990s there were only two or three non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language is was virtually extinct.

The second feature is virtually extinct in movie houses.

At this rate the tiger will be virtually extinct within the next five years.