10 sentences with 'cheaper'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cheaper and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, once new printing presses were built in cities and towns outside Meinz, it became cheaper to buy a printed Bible than one written in the scribal tradition. »
• « This had obvious repercussions for trade, because it became cheaper to transport commodities by steamship than to use locally produced ones; this had huge repercussions for agriculture and forestry, among other industries. »
• « The net effect of these innovations was to make travel far cheaper, simpler and faster than it had ever been in human history. In essence, every place on earth was closer than ever before. »
• « Simultaneously, new and more advanced printing presses and cheaper paper made newspapers and magazines available to a mass reading public. This encouraged the spread not only of information and news, but also of shared written languages. »
• « Material goods, mass-produced, became much cheaper throughout the 19th century thanks to industrialisation, and in the process could be used and discarded with a much more casual attitude by more and more people. »
• « Paper also became much cheaper. Paper had long been made from rags, which were shredded, compressed and reconstructed. The resulting paper was durable but expensive. »
• « From 1880 onwards the linotype machine was invented, which also made printing much cheaper and simpler than it had been. It therefore became much cheaper and easier to publish newspapers in the late 19th century. »
• « Some experts also claim that it is much more practical - and cheaper - to install solar screens with photovoltaic cells, taking advantage of the high temperatures and the raw rays of a .sun that does not have to pass through any atmosphere on the moon. »
• « But when the Silk Road, the long overland trade route from China to the Mediterranean, became more costly and dangerous to travel, Europeans sought a more efficient and cheaper trade route by water, initiating the development of what we now call the Atlantic World. »
• « Steamboats could travel faster and cheaper than sailing or keelboats, which floated downriver and had to be rowed or towed upriver on the return trip. »