14 sentences with “numerous”

Water is used in numerous industrial processes.

Renaissance artists depicted the crucifixion in numerous works.

During the winter, the lodge hosts numerous tourists who ski in the area.

On the ground live numerous germs that feed on waste, excrement, dead plants and animals, and industrial waste.

Today, there are numerous institutions throughout the world aimed at combating smoking.

The creation of numerous Roman buildings (some of which survive) is the result of this form of Romanitas.

Augustus was, among other things, a master of propaganda, commissioning numerous statues and busts of himself to be installed throughout the empire.

Over the centuries, numerous techniques have been developed which, based on nature, have tried to reach the ideal state of health of the human being along parallel paths to medical science.

There were huge libraries and temples, along with numerous public places of recreation, including public baths, racetracks and the famous Colosseum, used mainly for exhibitions of lethal gladiatorial combat.

During his campaigns, Alexander the Great founded numerous new cities that were to be colonies for his victorious Greek soldiers, all of them named Alexandria, except for those he named after his horse, Bucephalus, and his dog, Peritas.

Instead, just as numerous as the legions were the auxiliaries: Roman subjects (e.g. Celts, North Africans, Syrians, etc.) who nevertheless served the empire. The auxiliaries were divided into infantry cohorts and cavalry alae ("wings").

All things considered, this was a far-fetched plan; Persia was by far the "superpower" of its time, and since the end of the Persian War, more than a century earlier, numerous Greeks had served the Persian kings as mercenaries and traders.

An important factor in the successful conversion to Orthodox Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe was the splendour of Constantinople itself. There are numerous accounts of the impact of Constantinople's size, prosperity and beauty on visitors.

Likewise, the abundance of the Nile was carefully managed to produce the highest yields in history, so great that even after numerous taxes were levied, Egyptian wheat was still the cheapest available everywhere from Spain to Mesopotamia (the same was true of papyrus, a royal monopoly used throughout the Hellenistic world).