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Example sentences for "great increase"

  • There can be no doubt that there has been, of late years, a great increase of manufactures and manufactured produce in this country.

  • That will augment all transactions; and the result must be a great increase of prices, and the ruin of many individuals.

  • One of the results of the Pan American Conference at Rio Janeiro in the summer of 1906 has been a great increase in the activity and usefulness of the International Bureau of American Republics.

  • This evil is destined to great increase in future, and some timely measure may become necessary to guard against it.

  • This results in a great increase of power.

  • Wales after ten years’ contest; Scotland was fighting for independence, led by Wallace and Bruce; and long wars engaged England and France, leading finally to a great increase in French territory and power.

  • The change also led to a great increase in the length of tramway routes and to the construction of new tramway systems.

  • The practical result was a great increase in traffic, with a marked decrease in the proportion of expenses to receipts.

  • The systemisation of production thus means a great increase in the average skill of the workers as a whole.

  • And, above all else, it means a great increase of production per man, with a consequent lowering of prices.

  • It will mean, further, a great increase in the clerical staffs of firms who adopt these systems.

  • Illustration] The first direct effect of the new law was a great increase in the volume of business of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  • It soon developed, however, that railway rates were unique in the fact that not only was there a great increase in the volume of trade, but also in the diversity of articles offered for transportations as well.

  • The development of the last twenty years in the United States has certainly been in favor of a great increase in low-grade traffic.

  • In other words, a great increase of wealth had enabled the British taxpayer to pay far more while feeling the burden far less.

  • They prophesied a great increase in Irish expenditure and the disappearance of the contribution to Imperial services.

  • In considering the effect of modern machine-production upon the Business, the most obvious external change is a great increase in size.

  • Nothing but a great increase in the quantity of consumption, or the opening of new varieties of consumption, can maintain or increase the demand for labour in these machine-making industries.

  • Furthermore, the close approach of the trade-wind belt to the storm belt would result in a great increase in the amount of moisture drawn from the belt of evaporation which the trade winds dominate.

  • A great increase in rainfall may almost denude the slopes of soil, while a diminution to the point where much of the vegetation dies off has a similar effect.

  • The result was that, amid a great increase of pauper lunacy, the proportion of the paupers of unsound mind who were in lunatic asylums did not increase.

  • The demonetization of silver, moreover, was accompanied and followed by a great increase in silver production.

  • With the development of a highly saleable article into money, moreover, we have further a great increase in that saleability itself.

  • Count Zeppelin gained an advantage by attaching his propellers to the balloon, instead of to the car as heretofore; but this requires a rigid framework and a great increase of weight.

  • The former admitted of the general use of wheel-carriages, of the ready conveyance of produce to markets, and in particular of the extended use of lime, the application of which was immediately followed by a great increase of produce.

  • The financial and administrative measures which were the outcome of a policy which necessitated a great increase of armament made him intensely unpopular, and in December 1798 he shared the flight of the king and queen.

  • Whatever creates a use creates value, and a great increase in use forces an increase in value, provided that the supply does not increase equally fast; and with silver that is an impossibility.

  • We might multiply at length quotations to show that opinion is unanimous in England, regardless of party, to the effect that there has been a great increase in the purchasing power of gold.

  • The habitual environment now begins to seem dull and there is a great increase in impatience at restraint.

  • Through the teens there is a great increase in the definiteness of answers to the questions why books were chosen.


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