9 sentences with 'timber'
Example sentences and phrases with the word timber and other words derived from it.
• « Traders from other parts of northern Europe actively sought Baltic products such as furs, timber, fish and amber. This created a continuous flow of wealth into Scandinavia, which in turn led Nordic leaders to take an interest in the sources of that wealth. »
• « The Dutch served as middlemen in European trade, shipping and selling such things as timber from Russia, textiles from England, and wine from Germany, and also increasingly as bankers in Europe. »
• « The demand for timber is increasing, and this is the main reason why the forests seem to be being razed to the ground. »
• « For example, it is already well known that Japan was the main driving force behind Brazil's completion of its much-publicised Trans-Amazon route, with the sole aim of obtaining - from the Pacific Ocean - a faster way of obtaining timber, which is naturally cheaper due to the ease of transport provided by the construction of this route. »
• « But almost like a boomerang, the timber harvesters themselves can be put out of work. One of the most sought-after trees - the Virola Surinamensis - is on the verge of extinction in the eastern Amazon, a victim of indiscriminate predation. »
• « During the Crusades (1095-1291), Europeans developed an appetite for the spices, silk, porcelain, sugar and other luxury goods of the East, for which they traded furs, timber and the Slavs they captured and sold (hence the word slave). »
• « Instead of gold and silver, there was an abundance of land, and what timber and fur the land could produce. »
• « The first attempt was in 1825, when the New Zealand Company was formed in England. The New Zealand Company believed that large profits could be made from New Zealand flax, kauri timber, whaling, sealing and the colonisation of New Zealand. »