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Example sentences for "large extent"

  • During this expedition he travelled 834 miles, discovered some fine ranges and hills, a large extent of pastoral country, some apparently auriferous land, but no water of a permanent kind.

  • Crossing another river, which they named the Shaw, the explorers, still keeping east and south of east, found on the 27th of August, a river of some importance running through a large extent of good pastoral and agricultural land.

  • The river was followed from its source to the sea, and a large extent of valuable pastoral country and several permanent springs found in its valley; a large tributary, the Kilgour, was also discovered and named.

  • In England, also, to a large extent, Sherwell states, "morals fluctuate with trade.

  • A large extent of valuable country was found in the basin drained by this river, and a fine permanent spring discovered.

  • Their first expedition in Western Australia; travelled through a large extent of salt swampy country, entering the salt lake region, until they reached a range of granite hills forming the watershed of the coast streams.

  • Discover the Fortescue, the Hammersley Range, and the Ashburton, which was traced upwards through a large extent of good pastoral country.

  • The fact that this river derived its supply from the highest known mountains, and was independent, to a large extent, of the periodical rainfall, was a great inducement to hope for success.

  • A large extent of valuable pastoral country was found in the basin drained by this river, and many fine permanent springs discovered.

  • Hudson Bay, and the North, the Baltic, and the Yellow seas are examples where the sinking of the land has brought the sea in over low plains of large extent, thus deeply indenting the continental out-line.

  • It is carrying for long distances rocks of many kinds gathered, we may infer, over a large extent of country.

  • Throughout the whole of the Middle Ages in Europe, and to a large extent in the centuries that followed, families left their homes to set up their hearths anew in other lands.

  • Thus it happens that memory may, to a large extent, be made up of complexes.

  • They are mostly isolated rural populations who have remained to a large extent outside of the cosmopolitan cultures of the cities.

  • They are a means by which each indicates to others the fact of his comforting presence; and they still, to a large extent, retain their primary function.

  • Whenever the state of the air was favourable, the dark, heavy water-sky was visible in a marked degree, leaving no doubt that a large extent of Ross Sea was open the whole year round.

  • By this expression I mean the movement that takes place when a large extent of the snow surface breaks and sinks (settles down).

  • From the spot where he now stood, as far as the eye could see to the north-west, lay a large extent of ice-covered sea, studded with innumerable islands.

  • Having an efficient army, as the authority of Don Miguel was obeyed over a large extent of country, the government resolved to pursue its military operations with vigour.

  • But it is on this system that the planting of sugar has been, to a large extent, carried on for years in the Islands.

  • In this physiological work he was to a large extent urged on by his passionate desire to understand the machinery of all living things.

  • In the case of garden plants, as Darwin to a large extent claimed, it is not easy to say whether two individuals really belong to the same variety, as they are usually of hybrid origin.

  • These periodic motions are determined to a large extent, if not exclusively, by the heliotropism of these animals.

  • We also passed close by a large extent of sand-hills, near two miles square.

  • As we advanced, we came to a large extent of plain ground.

  • The 103rd Ohio was organized in Cleveland, and was, to a large extent, a Cleveland regiment, in both officers and men.

  • He utilized the canals to a large extent, putting on flying boats between all the larger towns.

  • In order to enable the workpeople to join in the business, a large sum of money was lent to them for the purpose of taking up returned shares in the company; and the workpeople took them up to a large extent.

  • Intemperance prevails to a large extent; good wages are squandered on mean indulgences; there is little care for the morrow, and the workhouse is the ultimate refuge.

  • Trade was to a large extent destroyed, and an enormous loss of capital was sustained, both by the workmen and by the masters.

  • The avoiding of these troubles is moderately easy as soon as dairymen recognise the source from which the infectious organisms come, and also the fact that low temperatures will in all cases remedy the evil to a large extent.

  • By showing the causes of disease and telling us where and how they are contracted, it is telling us how they may to a large extent be avoided.

  • Speaking of tact, the Indian character exacts a large display of it from one whose relation to him is such as that which the Superintendent occupies, his overseer and, to a large extent, his mentor.

  • The chiefs are looked upon as the heads or fathers of the tribe, and they rely, to a large extent, for their influence over the tribe, upon their wisdom, and eminence generally in qualities that excite or compel admiration or regard.

  • The Indian woman keeps up, to a large extent, the practice of wearing leggings and moccasins.

  • I am disposed to ascribe this state of things, to a large extent, to the operation of the Indian Law.

  • The crimes committed in the South consist to a large extent of offences against the person; physical weakness in a multitude of cases prevents women from committing such crimes.

  • The action of the individual in this respect depends to a large extent on the customs of the country.

  • The first of these causes is one which was felt more severely twenty or thirty years ago than at the present moment--I moan the introduction of machinery into industries formerly carried on to a large extent by hand.

  • But the township in the old sense of the word, with its settled population and the common eye upon all its members, has to a large extent disappeared.

  • The rise and fall of temperature, its rage and intensity, is one of these influences, and yet its pernicious offsets are capable of being held to a large extent in check.

  • It must be remembered that the period of the Middle Ages was represented by fancies and theories and an evanescent idealism which controlled the movements of the people to a large extent.

  • The members of these societies dwelt to a large extent in the Estufa, or Kiva, a large half-subterranean club-house where they could meet in secret.

  • But this refinement was to a large extent conventional, for there was a lack of genuine moral culture throughout the entire renaissance.

  • Caste prevailed to a large extent, making a great difference between the situation of the nobility and the peasants and slaves.

  • The art of medicine was practised to a large extent in the Orient, and this knowledge was transferred to Spain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    artificial respiration; great heiress; large bodies; large circle; large degree; large enough; large field; large flocks; large garden; large hole; large house; large income; large letters; large numbers; large plain; large pond; large portion; large sections; large stock; large surface; large teaspoonful; largely developed; larger portion; necessary condition; should fall; they shall