Assertion: sugar | /r/HasProperty | expensive
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: until this point
type: DEGREE
value: up until the 1500s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Initially, sugar was so rare and expensive only royalty could afford it
text: Known worldwide by the end of the medieval period, sugar was very expensive and was considered a "fine spice", but from about the year 1500, technological improvements and New World sources began turning it into a much cheaper bulk commodity.
text: Up until the 1500s, sugar was so expensive that is was used in small amounts as medicine and to sweeten wine, but not in food.
text: Regardless of price, their newly-titled Fairy Floss was a huge hit with the visitors to the Fair, many of whom had never had the opportunity to taste its precursor, spun sugar, due to class and cost restrictions of the time—sugar was expensive, and the time and skill necessary to create it were luxuries rarely afforded to the working class.
text: Until this point, sugar was very expensive and not available to general population of Europe and Americas.