6 sentences with 'extensive'

Example sentences and phrases with the word extensive and other words derived from it.

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« West Germany had extensive coal deposits, and by 1850 German industry was growing rapidly, especially in the Ruhr valley near the French border. »
« The Mongols also made extensive use of spies and intelligence to gather information about the areas they planned to attack, interviewing traders and travellers before they arrived. »
« For a few hundred years, there was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in England that promoted learning and culture, producing extensive literature in Old English (the best preserved example of which is the epic poem Beowulf). »
« They made extensive use of the guillotine, a new "humane" execution technology named after the doctor who invented it, and their leader was the famous Maximilien Robespierre, whom his followers called "the Incorruptible" for his resolute approach to seeing the Revolution succeed. »
« In 1622, the German physician Johann Neander published Tabacology, an extensive work in which he warned of the serious dangers of tobacco, although he recognised the curative effects it possessed. Those curative effects are now known to be non-existent; the danger, however, remains. »
« Out of necessity, they made extensive use of auxiliary troops to do much of the shooting, recruited from Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian or Estonian prisoner-of-war camps. The Nazis called these auxiliaries "Hiwis", an abbreviation of Hilfswilligen ("helpers"). Soon, both members of the SS army, the Waffen SS, and regular Wehrmacht soldiers were assigned to "Jewish Actions", the euphemism for organised massacres. »

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