Shipbuilding (there are five large shipyards* here) is likewise an important industry, and Cleveland controls the larger share of the tonnage on the Great Lakes.
Salt works were established in Syracuse as early as 1788 and the production of salt and sodium derivatives still constitutes an important industry.
The Nile was celebrated for its fish and fishing was an important industry.
Fishing was an important industry and on the coast regions it ranked next to agriculture.
The most common of all material and the greatest used was the tallow from the cattle, which increased in number and became quite animportant industry in the colonies.
The making of mats and baskets was an important industry.
Stock-raising is an important industry in the mountainous districts of the west, where there is excellent pasturage for the greater part of the year.
The Dominion is rich in metals and minerals, and mining is an important industry in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Baltic; what of the country that is free from forest and marsh is chiefly agricultural, but fishing is also an important industry; the people are a composite of Finns and immigrant Germans, with latterly Russians superimposed.
Hanover on its eastern border; its fertile soil favours extensive farming and grazing; shipbuilding is an important industry.
Treves was the northern rival of Arles; it formed the centre of a rich district, including Lorraine on the one hand and the Rhine provinces on the other, where the manufacture of glass by the third century became an important industry.
The manufacture of glass in England and France had become an important industry, and we enter upon the third or industrial period.
Footnote 280: The making of glass is still an important industry at Poshan, where the native quartz-rock is melted with saltpetre.
The production of these for the use of papermakers and bleachers of textile fabrics has become an important industry, but does not enter into our province.
Shipbuilding was an important industry in the 18th and especially the first quarter of the 19th century, and the U.
A few shellfish will always remain, but as an important industry, the shellfisheries, if no remedy is applied, in twenty-five years will be commercially extinct.
After the destruction of the natural beds, an important industry arose in the "bedding" of southern oysters for northern trade.
Clams had always been utilized for this purpose more or less, but an increased demand called for the development of an important industry in this line.
At Wareham the business was of slower growth and more logical development, and it has continued to increase, until at present the town possesses an important industry.
The area of wheat production is steadily increasing and wheat raising has become an important industry in newly developed countries, such as parts of British America, West Australia and Manchuria.
Cattle raising is an important industry, the number being computed at eighteen million.
The export of frozen beef and mutton is an important industry.
The firm of William Crabtree & Sons, manufacturers of worsted yarns with plants in Montgomery village and Newburgh, conducts an important industry.
The manufacture of pot and pearl ashes was an important industry in the early history of the town.
It cannot be safely shipped in bulk, and the manufacture of jute grain-sacks has become an important industry in consequence.
Coca-growing has become an important industry, and the plantations aggregate about three million trees;[60] a large part of the product is sent to the chemical laboratories of the United States.
Most plateaus produce an abundance of grass, and cattle-growing is therefore an important industry in such regions.
Next to agriculture the fisheries are the most important industry.
Fish are plentiful round the coasts, and the whale-fishery was once an important industry, but the fisheries as a whole have not been developed.
Mining, iron smelting and the manufacture of iron and coke are the chief industries of Bessemer; truck farming is also an important industry.
The manufacture of bricks is an important industry.
Garnets are so abundant in Bohemia as to constitute an important industry, employing some five hundred miners, an equal number of cutters and as many as three thousand dealers.
Cotton cloth, carpets, salt and leather goods are manufactured, and dyeing is an important industry.
The oil and wines of Malaga are also highly esteemed, and after 1870 the manufacture of beet and cane sugar developed into an important industry.
Until about the same time, when the Maine liquor law was passed, the manufacture of rum from molasses, received in exchange for lumber and fish in the West Indies, was also an important industry.
The growing of hemp was an important industry in the vicinity of St Johnsbury, and in 1831 Fairbanks invented a hemp-dressing machine.
Truck-gardening is an important industry of the township.
There is a large vineyard in the vicinity; truck-gardening is an important industry in the surrounding country; and Fayetteville is a shipping centre for small fruits and vegetables, especially lettuce, melons and berries.
These, which constitute an important industry, are described in the chapter on agriculture.
An important industry is the growing of fibre-producing plants, especially the henequen and ixtle, and there are many haciendas engaged in this remunerative branch of agriculture.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "important industry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
