Sentence examples for of considerable extent from inspiring English sources

The building itself is of considerable extent, and its principal front handsome and imposing.

After several days' sojourn, we continued through the Vegas Desert, a completely waterless wasteland of considerable extent, toward Muddy Creek, which we reached after two days of travel.

There were sugar plantations, some of them of considerable extent; and there were rice-fields where dozens and dozens of men were at work.

Sāsānian remains of considerable extent also exist at Qaṣr-e Shīrīn, on the road from Baghdad to Tehrān, and at Gondēshāpūr, modern Shāhābād, south of Dezfūl.

When Saint-Victor was built, the abbey was a temporal power of considerable extent, ruling properties in Spain, Sardinia, and the hinterlands of France.

If helpful, review the definition of a national forest: "a usually forested area of considerable extent that is preserved by government decree from private exploitation and is harvested only under supervision" (Merriam-Webster Online, //www.m-w.com/).

The revelation about Encounter was part of a general exposure of the considerable extent to which the C.I.A., by means of dummy foundations and front organizations such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom, headquartered in Berlin, had subsidized and promoted activities that it calculated to be anti-Soviet.

This kind of government cannot be exercised, therefore, over a country of any considerable extent; it must be confined to a single city, or at least limited to such bounds as that the people can conveniently assemble, be able to debate, understand the subject submitted to them, and declare their opinion concerning it.

Taking into account the novelty of the diagrammatic technique and difficulties in carrying out a comparative reliability study of a considerable extent on patients, the current exploration opted for healthy subjects as well.

The history of the land of Assyria is, to a considerable extent, the story of a continuous attempt by individuals, communities, states, and empires to define their places in their landscapes.

Cohen's 1883 The Principle of the Infinitesimal Method and its History and the second, 1885 edition of Kant's Theory of Experience reveal the considerable extent to which he modified and deepened his epistemology and philosophy of science over the course of the 1870s and early 1880s.