Sentence examples for vast accumulation from inspiring English sources

Was there a deep strategy behind this vast accumulation of low-yielding assets?

Henry worked to shore up his position through a rapid and vast accumulation of wealth.

It contained a vast accumulation of debris that was made up of many clearly distinguishable layers.

This vast accumulation of debt threatens not just our economy, but our security.

The danger now is that such a vast accumulation of records makes it nearly impossible to distinguish the essential from the ephemeral.

The land, enormously compressed by the vast accumulation of glacial ice on it, has since been rebounding (rising up) at an extremely gradual rate.

A third of all plastics end up in the environment and 8m tonnes end up in the ocean every year, creating vast accumulations of life-choking rubbish.

Keynes wrote in 1919 that it was "precisely the inequality of the distribution of wealth which made possible those vast accumulations of fixed wealth and of capital improvements which distinguished [the Gilded Age] from all others".

Since he left Germany to live and work in Nîmes in the south of France, he has adopted his own magus-like approach: he is forever building ramshackle sheds to house his art, or burrowing in cellars among his vast accumulations of canvases, models, old photos, wormy manuscripts, half-finished and half-destroyed sculptures.

"I thought of these trophies as a way to bring the monumentality to a more intimate level," said Ms. Shin, 37, an artist known for her vast accumulations of singular castoff objects — old clothing, empty prescription bottles, losing lottery tickets — which she transforms into arresting installations that loosely reflect the people who once used the items.

In a landmark, posthumously published work, "Children Above 180 IQ (Stanford-Binet): Origin and Development," she presented case studies of these children, vast accumulations of detail pertaining to family histories ("A's great-grandfather... a tailor, devised and patented a union suit, said to have been the first union suit"), head circumferences, grip measurements, and prepubescent doodles.