8 sentences with 'bulk'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bulk and other words derived from it.
• « During the period when the empire was at its height, the bulk of the population and wealth was in the east, concentrated in Egypt, Anatolia (the region corresponding to the present-day nation of Turkey) and the Levant. »
• « Given the sheer breadth of the history covered in the chapters of this book, the bulk of the consideration focuses on 'high-level' political history, tracing a chronological framework of major states, political events and political changes. »
• « In their state, the upper echelons of government and administration were Greek, but the bulk of the royal bureaucracy was Egyptian. »
• « Feudal lords created new roads and repaired the Roman roads of 1,000 years earlier, allowing bulk trade to travel more cheaply and efficiently. »
• « More important than bulk goods, however, were luxury goods, a trade almost entirely controlled by Italian cities during this period. »
• « The lines between the upper echelons of the bourgeoisie and the bulk of the nobility were very blurred by the end of the century, as bourgeois money financed the old noble houses that still had access to the social prestige of a title. »
• « Cavour launched the bulk of the Piedmontese army into the Papal States, annexing them and heading for Garibaldi. When he arrived, Garibaldi ceded his conquests to Vittorio Emanuele, and Italy grew to encompass both Sicily and the south. Thus, in about six months, the northern conquests of Piedmont-Sardinia were joined by Garibaldi's bizarre conquest of the south. »
• « Then, on 10 May, they attacked the Netherlands, Belgium and France, sending the bulk of their forces through a forest on the Franco-Belgian border that the French mistakenly thought was impassable to an army. »