Sentence examples for mostly ancient from inspiring English sources

Something like 5 million people a year visit the commission's sites, which are mostly ancient monuments.

Some 15-20 larchaeologicalgical sites, mostly ancient Sumerian cities, were comprehensively pillaged by armed gangs.

The new sculptures use, as Brancusi did, mostly ancient, traditional materials: wood, bronze and stone.

This is 64 hectares (158 acres) of mostly ancient semi-natural woodland set in beautiful Cumbrian farmland.

The principal yazatas are mostly ancient Iranian deities reduced to auxiliary status: Ātar (Fire), Mithra, Anahita, Rashnu (The Righteous), Sraosha, and Verethraghna.

As tour master for the 2012 motoring tour, which left Kirkland, Wash., on Aug. 7 and arrived in Pebble Beach eight days later, Mr. McEwan knows firsthand the mishaps that can occur when 17 mostly ancient vehicles embark on a journey over arduous terrain.

A flood of statuary has flowed messily into the space between the two, mostly celebrating Ancient Macedonia and the early 20th-century anti-Ottoman nationalist insurgents of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (the current ruling party considers itself their successor), as well as sundry medieval kings and folk heroes.

Some 60% of the representatives of areas of Germany primarily inhabited by Poles were the Junkers, the landed aristocracy, mostly with ancient feudal roots.

The Orcadian population is thought to be a mixture of Norse Vikings and, mostly, the Ancient British.

So Mr. Ben-Yehuda started inventing new words, mostly drawn from ancient biblical patterns and roots.

But dogs had little use except guarding houses, which was mostly unnecessary in ancient Korean villages of the same clans".