Sentence examples for Greater affluence from inspiring English sources

Greater affluence also led to more private homes being built, so that by the mid 1960s house building peaked at more than 400,000 a year.

Greater affluence and consumerism, Kynaston argues, increased the importance of home life and diminished the sense of collective identity: sports and cinema attendance declined, while television thrived, especially with the introduction of a commercial alternative to the BBC.

He promised greater affluence but preached against complacency.

Trump did worse in areas of greater affluence and higher levels of education, particularly around Milwaukee.

In response to this greater affluence, they gradually increase their spending.

Foreign residents say DVDs from South Korea are helping to spread knowledge of the South's far greater affluence.

It's an expression of longing, in part, for a glorious past, one in which the federal government played a less dominant role in the nation's economy; and for a moment in which markets, by themselves, functioned well enough to keep society on a trajectory of ever-greater affluence.

"You have areas of poverty and areas of great affluence and less of a middle".

He grew up in great affluence in Larchmont, New York, surrounded by servants and protected from any unsuitable contacts.

Within America's great affluence, nearly 50 million people live in poverty, defined as income below $23,550 for a family of four.

No one had any money". Today she lives in a society which, on paper at least, enjoys the greatest affluence the world has ever seen.