In the heart of Lanarkshire, just nine miles from the centre of Glasgow, lies a vast expanse of open land. |
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However to the West of the estate lies an expanse of waste ground and swampland which very nearly cost the life of a young boy from the estate. |
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He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail. |
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It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined. |
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If there are deciduous trees in the picture-perfect expanse, their leaves will be raked, gathered, and disposed of at the curb. |
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Carol Decker puts a finger to her lips and looks beyond the adobe ruins to the sprawling expanse of flat brush-covered open ground. |
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Barrel rolls, loops and dives featured as the three aircraft wheeled gracefully over the expanse of Sydney Harbour. |
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To the south the flat expanse of Lake Dokan shone greasily in the low evening light like fish scales. |
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Nico and Jean will take us on a tour of their facilities showing us the expanse of daffodils, tulips, lilies and delphiniums. |
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It is another of those tiny groups of dots that punctuate the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. |
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We drop through what seems to be an eternal void, not five astronauts floating in space but five aquanauts in an expanse of emptiness. |
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He saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive. |
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They can also locate small heat sources, such as a liferaft in the open sea, or a live body in an expanse of snowy hillside. |
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Kim returned home Aug.18 after a three-week round-trip railway trip across the vast expanse of Siberia to Moscow and St. Petersburg. |
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The name is painted on white articulated lorries parked across a massive expanse of yard. |
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She realised that now, confronted with this vast expanse of lovely, beautiful space. |
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The area is called the taiga, which refers to the great expanse of forest that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. |
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The tailgate hinges on both the side and the bottom so you can get into the trunk without sprawling across a filthy expanse of sheet metal. |
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The Rann, a vast expanse of tidal mud flats and salt marshes, take up much of Kachch. |
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Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena. |
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The River Oaks Country Club in Houston sits like a plantation mansion amid a vast expanse of magnolias, dogwood, azaleas, and golf greens. |
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I was rebounding and using an expanse of dates to distract my attention from how awful I really felt. |
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They were looking out onto a seemingly unending expanse of perfectly blue ocean beneath a cloudless azure sky. |
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To take a peep at what lies beneath that large, flat expanse of ice, you must first make your ice hole, or maina. |
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The Egyptian dining room had been painted over, but when stripped it revealed a vast expanse of scagliola. |
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But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing. |
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Its bald expanse colonized by a single stubby tree, the narrow courtyard has the bleak and slightly disturbing aura of a de Chirico painting. |
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And there I was, flying above it, marvelling at the expanse of shining blue water, dotted with delicate islands, calm as a mirror. |
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As she gazed out into the expanse she saw nothing of the thick silver fog, or the dark grey water. |
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From a distance, his digging areas look like plowed fields, bordered by a gleaming expanse of tidal flats. |
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The tide was out, further out than I had seen for a very long time, revealing an expanse of mud and mussel beds. |
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It seemed to be an expanse of crispy brown grass, scattered with a few mesquite trees. |
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There is no cloud there, no smog belching from industrial chimneys, just a great barren expanse of sand and jewelled sky. |
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Bounded on the north by the Ritter Range, the San Joaquin River drains a vast expanse of mountains south of Yosemite. |
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Drilled piles were used to extend the load below the expanse of surface soil. |
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Across a vast white expanse a single figure appears as a dot on the horizon. |
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As James looks out the window of the tract housing and sees the expanse of a wheat field for the first time, something inside him opens up. |
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To one side was a rolling expanse of pasture land, clustered with flocks of sheep so thick that hundreds must graze there. |
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But all that greeted his eye was and endless expanse of sand and waves in front of him, and the sheer wall of a rocky cliff behind. |
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Malaysia's hot pursuit a fortnight ago appeared like a mirage in Bahrain's desert expanse. |
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Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles. |
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There is a huge expanse of sweeping railway track that links up to form a triangle enclosing acres of scrub and grass. |
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Josh picked up his pace and jogged across the park and short expanse of field to the metal dugouts. |
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Her visage set against the wide expanse of the stars like the faded misty memory of a dream. |
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Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs. |
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The tundra and vast expanse of snowy waste is used for decorative backdrops, like the mountains of Afghanistan. |
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They watched the proceedings through a bullet-proof glass screen topped by an expanse of netting. |
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The expanse of green, turquoise and blue water opened up before me, stretching to the horizon. |
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The very expanse of his sentences, their twist and torque, is an American dream of plenitude. |
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It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass. |
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The high spot, literally, is the Slieve Bloom mountains, an expanse of moorland with views across five counties. |
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Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast. |
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He looked out at the white capped peaks and marveled at the beauteous expanse of the mountain range. |
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There was a vast expanse of marble slabbed flooring, all green and cream swirls, and lots of polished wood with carved curlicues. |
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Only the edge of the canvas is brightened by colour, while the centre is occupied by a vast expanse of undifferentiated whiteness. |
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She looked around her at the vast expanse of the unbroken plain of unending white tiles and sighed. |
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The land on either side of the road sloped down and away, giving way to rows of trees on both sides, and a healthy expanse of grass. |
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Where else can the unsearchableness of God be seen than in the great expanse of outer and inner space? |
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Arguably the jewel in the area's crown is the rolling expanse of unspoiled countryside. |
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They framed the vast expanse of brine and muddy flats where Hunt set up shop. |
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Unlike your own tiny island, Canada is a vast expanse covering almost every known climatic type. |
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All you can see when you get out of the car is this vast flat expanse of grass. |
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In the gloom across the vast expanse of sand the distant hills awaited the daylight. |
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The sun came out and poured through the stained glass windows down onto the vast expanse of stone floor. |
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We were dumped by some old Nissen huts at the edge of some sand dunes, looking out over a vast, sandy expanse of beach. |
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These valleys form part of a magnificent expanse of contiguous pristine valleys-a complex of giant trees unparalleled on Vancouver Island. |
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He saw a great expanse of lush green meadow, where wild ponies galloped free and careless in its serenity. |
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Northern Italy is a vast expanse of vineyards, and much of the wine made there is the sparkler known as spumante. |
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The great expanse of unoccupied land available for squatting throughout southeastern Australia implied that the sheep could be left to wander. |
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The road takes on a gentle grade, and I see more oaks and fewer farms until the steel blue expanse of Clear Lake appears. |
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The ability to centrally administer a broad expanse of storage with the same tools and procedures can reduce administrative costs. |
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The sheer expanse of the skies humbles me but also makes me feel real and like I need to open up. |
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There must be something worth looking at in this huge expanse of dry puna that stretched away from us to some distant humps. |
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However packed it gets, this great civic expanse always retains its symbolic force. |
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Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog. |
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It is a site fit for a king, this hillside peering over the roofs of Berkeley toward an expanse of shimmering bay. |
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Above them is a wide expanse of thigh, a pelmet of a skirt and frosted face makeup that looks like pancake for the stage. |
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When I went higher still, I was able to look down on a great expanse of white cloud, looking like giant clumps of spotlessly clean cotton wool. |
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The stars were twinkling incandescently in the vast expanse of inky black sky overhead, a sight that we could rarely witness in the city. |
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The glassy expanse of the curtain wall opens the concourse areas to the sky and the drama of arriving and departing aircraft. |
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Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps. |
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The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. |
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The expanse of the day unfolds before me and I can't comprehend how I am going to distract my cranky baby for the next 12 hours. |
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Honeycomb Canyon offers powder hounds such a sprawling expanse that the day after a storm, you can traverse untracked snow until the lift closes. |
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We can thank author Elisabeth Beresford for making famous this glorious expanse of open space. |
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And do you want an intimate room, modest in size, or a grand space with a lofty ceiling and broad expanse of floor? |
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Snow covered the grassy expanse behind the house, and the small pond out back had a thin layer of ice forming over its black waters. |
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Eastward lay the Sonoma floodplain, an expanse of diked and drained bay lands, with tidal creeks and sloughs shining in the distance. |
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While in the air, he watched as a tractor pulling a plow cut a dark line of earth across an expanse of ground. |
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In summer, the watercourse provides a green belt that distinguishes the town from the dun expanse that surrounds it. |
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Stables also regularly use the wide expanse of shoreline to exercise their horses. |
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Prior to Shepherd Market being laid out in the 1730s, this area was just an expanse of open fields on the western edge of town. |
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The wide expanse of floor between the two areas was pale, marble patterned tile. |
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If your floor offers a wide expanse of uninterrupted space, a larger pattern may be used. |
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You can get a shot of her from behind, with the wide expanse of Beach Road stretching away from her. |
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Directly above the bar, it was huge, no walls to encumber the wide expanse of the room. |
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From between two ridges I stared out across a green expanse stretching as far as I could see. |
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She leaned on the rail and viewed a large expanse of nature that continued as far as she could see. |
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Our main testing and exhibition hall is adjacent to a grassy expanse and a patio area. |
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Across the other side of South London lies Richmond Park, a huge expanse of green untroubled by public transport. |
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She looked around at the buildings, and the wide expanse of the park before them. |
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For a while I sat on a bench among the sand-dunes looking out over a wide expanse of sand and out to the sea. |
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The entire section was stripped naked, exposing the ship's innards to the cold expanse of space. |
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Most anywhere on the long expanse of the north shore side of the Cape which uncovers at low tides to expose sand flats can be productive. |
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Jonnie and I rode to the beach, which was this big beautiful vast expanse of flat sand and waveless ocean. |
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Our attention was soon called to the wide expanse of blue sky by the loud screeching of the hawks up above us. |
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This fat-soluble vitamin is essential for the maintenance and healing of epithelial tissues, with skin being the largest expanse of epithelial tissue you've got! |
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I booked tables four and five, which faced the wider expanse of the room. |
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This is especially true given the size and expanse of the global economy. |
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He stood by the windows, looking out over the great expanse of choppy sea, his tall form draped in something nondescript which might have been a military greatcoat. |
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Moss, chocolate, mink, charcoal, biscuit and olive dominated the white expanse of winter for Grachvogel, as jazz drifted from a grand piano on the catwalk. |
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The wind lashed the water into a choppy expanse of whitecaps. |
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On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind. |
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An instant of heat and he was suddenly standing at the edge of a great expanse of grassland, the grass withered and blackened in places but generally a dry yellow. |
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Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures. |
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To break up the expanse of a not-so-Victorian double garage door, the couple came up with a design that looks like two structures, one nested inside the other. |
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People in the book often feel like interrogative bodies exploring the outer limits of their own emotions and thoughts as well as the expanse beyond. |
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If you visit Jerusalem today, you will be moved by its beauty, its expanse, its bursting population, its thousands of Torah scholars and its scores of yeshivas. |
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Bangladesh was East Pakistan at the time, geographically separated from West Pakistan by the vast expanse of India. |
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While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water. |
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In one of his famous cartoons, he shows soldiers of the French Foreign Legion marching endlessly through a desert expanse with two legionnaires in the foreground. |
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Somewhere in that expanse of California sky, I know Edith Jefferson will be doing the jitterbug. |
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A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away. |
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The view is not of the standard Chicago skyline in which gleaming skyscrapers rise like the Emerald City from the glassy expanse of Lake Michigan. |
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We emerged into the country to find ourselves amid an open expanse of coconut palms, interspersed with the odd clove and nutmeg tree, banana palm and cinnamon bush. |
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This beautiful expanse of water was once the valley of the Parramatta river, drowned by rising sea levels following the big thaw at the end of the last ice age. |
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The entire area of the marsh has to be fenced to protect the remaining part from further encroachment, say nature lovers, who enjoy its vast expanse and birdlife. |
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I had visions of running over to the fresh bread counter, ripping the crust off a large bloomer and burying my face in the soft, warm expanse of white loaf. |
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From Trowunna, I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England. |
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They enjoy being in the catbird seat, perched at a high elevation, with a commanding view of a vast expanse of open air, high above the landmass below. |
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The ceiling remains a relatively unbroken expanse of acoustical tile, which was selected for its high and uniform absorptive properties across a broad frequency spectrum. |
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This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds. |
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It's been a very long trek across inner suburbia to reach this remote rail hub surrounded on three sides by an expanse of tracks and overhead cables. |
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The path continues back to the southern end of the tarn where there is again a challenging gradient before you leave the gravel track and meet an expanse of sloping grass. |
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The expanse of the valley was dotted with many white dots, and a black one here and there, dots that hopped around from time to time and baaed continuously. |
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It is but a short hike through a white pine forest from the top of the ski resort chair to the broad expanse of this high bowl, ringed by sharp summits and sawtooth ridges. |
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Here we washed our feet before entering the wide expanse of virgin forest. |
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Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel. |
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The party sequence in Notorious begins with a wide shot from high above the top of the stairs, all glittering expanse below. |
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An oddly shaped white and yellow puddle of thinned pigment, its isolation heightened by an expanse of brushy, unmodulated blue, recalls Miro in its comic vulnerability. |
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A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday. |
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The great expanse of the Terris Nebula dominated the western horizon, with its many hues of vermilion, purple and fuchsia against the dark sapphire of the evening sky. |
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The Montrose basin, with its wide expanse of sandflats, offers a perfect environment for the sea trout and, as luck would have it, is too shallow for fish farming. |
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Its interior offers a complex expanse of soaring, curved steel beams. |
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In 2008, after a rift with Laban, he disappeared to the empty expanse of Greenland. |
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Walking along the edge of Thirlmere, it's hard to imagine this vast expanse of water was once two small shallow lakes, a bridge, open fields and a meandering Lakeland beck. |
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This wild and untrammelled expanse, over thousands of miles of uninterrupted trail, makes for a very intense wilderness experience for the mushers. |
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In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants. |
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Haig paused for a moment to take in the expanse of bronzed, rounded flesh. |
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The sky is broodingly grey over the humid downs of the Barkly Tableland as a mob of well-fed white Brahman cows and calves quietly shift across the green expanse. |
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If you slip, you go tumbling over the roof into the expanse below. |
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By half past eleven the vast expanse of Trafalgar Square was already full. |
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In the tall, chapel-like gallery at the entrance, one gazed up, across and through the shimmering expanse of Summer Moon, a symphony of color, light and energy. |
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Nowhere is the problem more visible than in the open expanse of southwestern Dade County, where tract housing gives way to sawgrass and airboat engines. |
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The moon waxed full, looming huge upon the speckled expanse. |
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She had been climbing up the declivitous trail for hours and had lost her footing more than once, so the safety of a relatively flat expanse was welcome indeed. |
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Ten years ago, the area was a vast expanse of industrial wasteland. |
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Spread out below the ridge is a remarkable expanse of woodlands, an acacia and eucalypt plain of shimmering leaf canopy that extends to the coast. |
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This door opens to a great expanse of space where the family room is. |
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But during the downpours last November, the mound only succeeded in accumulating a huge expanse of water which had run off from saturated fields nearby. |
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The acuteness and expanse of his vision, his documentary power, and his grace and skill as an artist make his work devastatingly, frighteningly immediate. |
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Lakshmi gazed into the suddenly empty expanse of her suitcase, then closed it with a bang, punctuating the end to the conversation. |
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Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. |
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The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether. |
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He strongly believed that species of organisms originated in a succession of Divine creative acts throughout the long expanse of history. |
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Director of photography Bernhard Jasper shoots in a cinemascope to capture the expanse of shimmering blue and solitude. |
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Louisiana's mottled ducks make up well over half of the region's total because of its massive expanse of soft deltaic and chenier plain marshes. |
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Heading west, the coast is an expanse of alluvial deposits stretching to the mouth of Glamorgan's most well known river, the River Taff. |
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In the northwest, the River Congo has a width of 40 km, a vast expanse of water continually replenished by its confluence with the River Ubangi. |
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Celtic art is a difficult term to define, covering a huge expanse of time, geography and cultures. |
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The huge expanse of Rupert's Land has been transferred to Canadian possession. |
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For those brave, foolhardy souls finding their way around a vast expanse of unfamiliar pistes, the shortage of landmarks can be a problem. |
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Belfast Lough is a long, wide and deep expanse of water, virtually free of strong tides. |
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This results when cold polar maritime air that has travelled over a large expanse of warmer ocean is forced to rise over high country. |
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Heracles forced Helios to lend him his golden bowl, in order to cross the wide expanse of the Ocean on his trip to the Hesperides. |
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Kim Novak runs away from James Stewart, across an expanse of field. |
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And as they often are on a super-cold day, snow conditions Okemo's wide expanse of terrain were excellent on this subarctic day. |
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It's the home of the Pennine Sailing Club, who use the expanse of Winscar Reservoir high in the Pennines as their base. |
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It lies on a broad expanse of clay and limestone, very different from the friable schistose soils at Chteau Sainte Marguerite. |
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He also developed similar techniques when it came to measuring the heights of mountains, depths of the valleys, and expanse of the horizon. |
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The vast flat expanse of the Carse of Stirling follows including Flanders Moss. |
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Europeans generally assumed that the aquatic expanse between Europe and Asia was uninterrupted. |
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Southsea Common is a large expanse of mown grassland parallel to the shore from Clarence Pier to Southsea Castle. |
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Some abandoned chalk mines remain tourist destinations due to their massive expanse and natural beauty. |
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However, an expanse of water separates the island of Gotland from the Swedes. |
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As a desert, Sahara is now a hostile expanse that separates the Mediterranean economy from the economy of the Niger basin. |
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The latter was a vast expanse, comprising multiple buildings with shops on four levels. |
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From here the ridge descends and gradually broadens into the rough expanse of Thelkeld Common. |
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A batholith is formed when many plutons converge to form a huge expanse of granitic rock. |
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The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland almost entirely within the county of Cheshire in North West England. |
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This wide expanse of peat bog continues to be dangerous to walkers, especially after heavy rain. |
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The western side of the region is the Kgalagadi desert, an expanse of undulating sandbelts and limestone outcrops, with a cover of grass and thorn scrub. |
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From the centre of each side of this tree-bound square ran avenues east, west, and south into the wide expanse of corn-land and coomb to the distance of a mile or so. |
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I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum. |
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At the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 BC, Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a large expanse of land known as Doggerland in the southern North Sea basin. |
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There is an expanse of alluvial plains along it in the Punjab and Sindh. |
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The cathedral is covered by a huge expanse of lead and whilst the majority of the wooden framework remains sound, much of the lead itself needs replacing. |
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The Department of Prehistory and Europe was established in 1969 and is responsible for collections that cover a vast expanse of time and geography. |
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It also boasts the southernmost expanse of Arctic tundra in the world. |
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Farther north, the Atlantic opens into the Arctic Ocean, which is connected to the Pacific by the Bering Strait, forming a continuous expanse of water. |
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Aerial view showing an expanse of drift ice in southeastern Greenland, comprising loosely packed floes of various sizes, with a lead developing in the centre. |
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Aerial view showing an expanse of drift ice consisting mostly of water. |
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Creating the perfect mixture of sand and water for our man-made Cinderellaesque castle, I looked up at the expanse of water before me and had one of those epiphany moments. |
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You swing out into the Canale della Giudecca, a wide expanse lined with palaces that are now apartments, two-bedroom walk-ups with ageless cats and Renaissance views. |
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Because testosterone increases body hair growth and infertility in women, greater pubic hair expanse could function as a visual heuristic of female infertility for men. |
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On the other hand, Jenney's space is sometimes as empty as a Barnett Newman field painting, with the object a kind of realist zip trivialized by the expanse of space. |
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Attempting to argue that gawping at an exposed breast or an expanse of thigh will make the readers of Loaded more interested in culture sounds like a load of ballerinas to me. |
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The crashes are usually because the land rises imperceptibly into a largely featureless expanse, an area prone to sudden cloud, mist, updraughts and crosswinds. |
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After all, the real number line is an infinitely long, continuous expanse, while the counting numbers are just isolated milestones along this line. |
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