6 sentences with 'prices'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prices and other words derived from it.
• « Slavery declined around 200 CE because supplies began to run low and prices rose; without the steady expansion of the empire, there were far fewer slaves available. »
• « He also tried to freeze wages and prices by decree, but this did not work as it created a black market in both goods and labour. »
• « In the following decades, then, many peasants benefited from higher prices for their labour and crops. »
• « The prices commanded by spices ensured that Venetian merchants could achieve incredible wealth. »
• « Rumours spread among the peasants that the nobles were hoarding grain reserves, driving up prices and starving the peasants into submission. »
• « Food was expensive, in part because of an 1815 law in the British Parliament called the Corn Laws that banned the importation of grain and kept prices high (the wealthy, land-owning noble class had pushed the law through parliament). »