Sentence examples for large amounts of property from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Schwartz's long career, he became a key figure in partnerships that owned large amounts of property in Manhattan's garment district and elsewhere.

Among the worst-hit will be firms that have written off large amounts of property and those with large hidden reserves, which will now be taxed more steeply when they are realised.

With large amounts of property allotted to a daughter's dowry, her family naturally sought benefits; as a result women's legal claims to property were greatly improved.

Afterwards, Apia and Nabis staged a financial coup by confiscating large amounts of property from the wealthy families of these cities, and torturing those who resisted them; much of the confiscated land was redistributed to liberated helots loyal to Nabis.

In 1612 he appears in court to testify in a case regarding the dowry of his French landlord's daughter (despite owning a large amount of property, in London Shakespeare prefers to rent).

Detective senior sergeant Mark Bland from Strike Force Trident said the group was alleged to have stolen a large amount of property from 48 break-ins and 27 car thefts, valued at about $220,000.

Given such a large amount of property damage, though, the death toll of the fire was remarkably low, reportedly only 10 people--not quite the end of the world.

The men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle, and police said a "large amount" of property had been retrieved which officers were confident had been stolen from Hatton Garden.

Jacob then served Laban for another six years, during which he amassed a large amount of property; he then set out with his wives and children to return to Palestine.

The simple millionaire has no particular standing in an economy whose unit is a billion, the dreams of pulling mysterious strings in a thousand cities has vanished, along with many of the cities; the possession of any large amount of property in the days to come is apt, we feel, to be more of a nuisance than anything else.

He assigns Lois to uncover the news of an unknown businessman purchasing a large amount of property in California.