9 sentences with 'surplus'
Example sentences and phrases with the word surplus and other words derived from it.
• « The problem with the hunter-gatherer way of life, however, is that it is extremely precarious: there is never a significant surplus of caloric energy, i.e. food, and therefore population levels among hunter-gatherers were generally static. »
• « The food surplus that agriculture made possible in the Fertile Crescent eventually led to the emergence of the first large settlements. »
• « Social divisions themselves are only possible when there is a surplus of food. If everyone has to work all the time to get enough food, there is little time left for anyone to specialise in other activities. »
• « This in turn created a huge surplus of wealth for the royal government, which had the right to tax and redistribute it (as did the states of Mesopotamia to the east). »
• « In short, nowhere else on earth could the pyramids have been built more than in ancient Egypt. There had to be a gigantic surplus of energy in the form of calories available to do so. »
• « In turn, the existence of a surplus encouraged feudal lords to convert payment in kind (i.e. taxes and rents paid in real food and livestock) into cash rent. »
• « Italian farms were prosperous and, by the Renaissance period, produced a significant and continuing surplus, feeding the growing cities. »
• « Meanwhile, industry produced more and more products. Every year the efficiency and economy of production improved, leading to a great surplus of products available for purchase. »
• « Moreover, most people did not think of money as something to "save" - in the good years when the average person somehow had "extra" money, they simply spent it on more food or, especially for men, on alcohol, because it was impossible to anticipate having a surplus again in the future. »