6 sentences with 'staggering'

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« Rome achieved remarkable things, but it did so through appalling cruelty and staggering levels of violence. »
« This alliance was underpinned by staggering levels of official violence through law enforcement and the brutal suppression of popular uprisings. »
« The main exception was Brazil, which was hugely profitable and imported staggering numbers of slaves (Brazil was also the last state to ban slavery, in 1888). »
« Henry married a staggering total of six wives during his lifetime, with two divorced, two executed, one dying of natural causes, and the last, Catherine Parr, surviving him. »
« The death toll was staggering: in the end, the Black Death killed about a third of Europe's population in just three years (this is a conservative estimate - some historians today have estimated it was closer to half!). »
« Generations of European elites granted land, in particular, to monasteries and convents during their lifetime or as part of their posthumous bequests. The result was the staggering statistic that monasteries owned 20% of the arable land in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages. »

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