7 sentences with 'collecting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word collecting and other words derived from it.
• « Also, although the details are now lost, the Old Kingdom government must have been very effective in collecting taxes and distributing food, supplies and work equipment. »
• « Regional administrators did the important work of recruiting labourers, collecting taxes and making sure that agriculture was on track. »
• « With this in mind, nowhere did kings succeed in simply collecting taxes without having to make concessions to their subjects. »
• « In the hive, only a small group of workers "specialise" in making propolis, while the others do the heavy work of collecting pollen and making honey. »
• « He had set himself the task of collecting samples of the medicinal plants of these people, and documenting them before civilisation had forgotten the healers and their knowledge. »
• « Like the feudal lords in Europe at the time, the ruling class lived off the labour of the peasants, collecting vast riches that accompanied them as they went, mummified, into the afterlife. »
• « Priests, hidden in monasteries, kept knowledge alive by collecting and copying religious and secular manuscripts, often adding beautiful drawings or artwork. »