8 sentences with 'losses'

Example sentences and phrases with the word losses and other words derived from it.

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« Similarly, the common house fly causes huge losses in the sheep industry because it infects sheep and even kills them. »
« In addition to the British Royal Air Force, the British had numerous anti-aircraft gun batteries that inflicted significant losses on the Luftwaffe. »
« However, both the failed invasion of England in 1588 and the continuing debacle of the Dutch Revolt resulted in huge losses of wealth and prestige for the Spanish. »
« The former is based on data indicating that annual losses from computer theft in the United States are in the billions of dollars. This is too high a figure not to develop specialists in catching these computerised thieves. »
« It was, despite its continued pretensions to empire, in reality a kingdom after territorial losses, populated almost entirely by Greek-speaking "Romans" rather than by those Romans, as well as by its former Syrian, Jewish, African, Italian and Spanish subjects. »
« From Los Corrales, the British general Whitelocke ordered the attack on the city on 5 July 1807, after unsuccessfully demanding its surrender. The neighbourhood defended itself magnificently and inflicted enormous losses on the attackers, who finally had to surrender on the 7th. »
« In June 1942, at the Battle of Midway, American forces sank four Japanese aircraft carriers. The significance of Midway was not the loss itself, which was less serious than the losses the American navy had already suffered. Instead, it was the fact that the Americans had the industrial capacity to rebuild, while there was no way Japan could. »
« Although the losses of territory in Europe were mourned by the Byzantines of the time, they turned out to be something of a blessing in disguise for the empire: with its territory limited to the Balkans and Anatolia, the smaller empire had much more coherent and easily defended borders. Thus, these core areas remained under Byzantine control despite various losses for many centuries. »

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