6 sentences with 'significantly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word significantly and other words derived from it.
• « In almost all cases, Greek women married extremely young, usually shortly after puberty, and almost always to men significantly older than themselves. »
• « The terms of service in the Praetorian Guard were very attractive: 16 years instead of 25 and pay that was significantly higher (this was a necessity: the emperors starting with Claudius knew they were vulnerable to the Praetorians and needed to keep them happy and loyal). Not surprisingly, the praetorians were recruited from veteran legionaries. »
• « Europe also engaged significantly with its neighbouring regions, leading to both an influx of foreign trade goods and, unfortunately, tremendous bloodshed in the form of the Crusades. »
• « While the lot of Italian peasants was not significantly worse than that of peasants elsewhere, poor people in the cities had to bear heavy taxes on basic foodstuffs that made it especially miserable to be poor in one of the richest places in Europe at the time. »
• « By around 1450, military technology had changed significantly. The basis of this change can be summed up in one word: gunpowder. »
• « In short, the conquest of the Americas by Europeans was surprisingly rapid, not because the Europeans were significantly more powerful militarily than the Native Americans, but because most of the latter had already died of disease. »