7 sentences with 'exceeded'

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« The universal appeal of the work, whose sales far exceeded its author's wildest expectations, perplexed critics and commentators. »
« Indian, African and Middle Eastern merchants continued to trade goods and wealth whose value far exceeded that of trade between Europe and the Indian Ocean region. »
« Together with new compasses and the astrolabe, by the mid-15th century Europeans were able to make long-distance voyages that far exceeded their previous maximum ranges. »
« Men and women were massacred whether or not they had participated in the uprising, villages were burned to the ground, and the death toll easily exceeded 100,000 (some estimates put the figure much higher). »
« The early Christians came to insist, following Paul, that Jesus had been the Messiah, but that the "liberation" he offered was spiritual in nature, rather than having to do with prosaic politics. In other words, the potential to save the soul from damnation exceeded the Old Covenant. »
« The scale of that violence on a global scale far exceeded any of the relatively petty disputes that had constituted European warfare itself up to that point - the only European war to approach the level of bloodshed caused by imperialism was probably the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century, but imperialism's death toll was far greater still. »
« The central tenet of Romanticism was the idea that there were great, sometimes terrible, and literally "awesome" forces in the universe that exceeded humanity's rational ability to understand. Instead, all a human being could do was to attempt to pay homage to those forces - nature, the spirit or soul, the spirit of a people or a culture, or even death - through art. »

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