7 sentences with 'enormous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word enormous and other words derived from it.
• « The details of its construction are as enormous as its price: more than 18,000 pieces of iron were fitted together and perfectly adjusted as if it were an immense Meccano set. »
• « In the last sixty years historians have made enormous progress in dealing with various areas that had traditionally been neglected, especially in considering the histories of people who were not in power, including ordinary people in various eras, of women throughout most of history, and of slaves and servants. »
• « The enormous amount of energy expended in the construction of the pyramids is therefore staggering; only the incredible bounty of the Nile and its crops enabled the pyramids to be built by providing the calories consumed by the workers and draught animals, the wealth used to employ the supporting bureaucracy and the size of the population that sustained the entire enterprise. »
• « Egypt was the envy of the ancient world for its incredible wealth, wealth that was the direct result of its enormous surplus of grain, all fed by the flooding of the Nile. »
• « The combination of flourishing trade and high taxes generated enormous wealth for the king and court and, among other things, led to the construction of remarkable works of monumental architecture to decorate their capital. »
• « This idea of public debate and competition was to have an enormous influence on the development of Greek culture, which would later spread throughout the Mediterranean region. »
• « Greek drama, both tragedy and comedy, is of enormous historical importance because even when it used the gods as characters or fate as an explanation for problems, it put human beings front and centre as being responsible for their own mistakes. It depicted human choice as the centrepiece of life in a context of often uncontrollable circumstances. »