expanses

• “White's latest pictures feature solitary figures framed in expanses of white paper.”

  The Washington Post: Keinyo White

• “That would mark the ice sheets -- defined as expanses of deep, long-term ice larger than 20,000 square miles -- as the largest contributors to sea level rise, outstripping melting from Earth's other frozen reservoirs, namely mountain glaciers.”

  The Washington Post: Greenland and Antarctica melting faster than anyone expected

• “That would mark the ice sheets - defined as expanses of deep, long-term ice larger than 20,000 square miles - as the largest contributors to sea level rise, outstripping melting from Earth's other frozen reservoirs, namely mountain glaciers.”

  The Washington Post: Ice sheets melting faster than earlier estimates

• “(Psalms 102: 19; Ezekiel 17: 23) + Shechakim, "expanses," with reference to the extent of heaven.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “Over the lively course of its English career, the park has held farm animals, hunted animals, people, military equipment, large expanses of nature, and, in its parking guises, automobiles.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Today, Obama announced a sweeping new offshore drilling policy, opening “vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling” for the first time.”

  Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil

• “This week, President Obama announced a sweeping new offshore drilling policy, opening “vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling” for the first time in 25 years.”

  Think Progress » Sen. Murkowski On Whether Obama’s Drilling Plan Makes Her More Likely To Support Energy Bill: ‘Absolutely Not’

• “Here in FL, they seem to require that schools be built on big tracts and being no more than two-stories tall, plus large expanses of athletic fields.”

  Matthew Yglesias » School Construction Stimulus

• “The compound is fabulous, with very tall pines, firs and expanses of land so children conceivably could play and run and thrive.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Jane Aronson: What Does a Bar Mitzvah Have to do With the Fate of Orphans Around the World?

• “House of the Day Large expanses of windows in this 6,400-square-foot home in Austin take advantage of lovely lake views.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Austin with a View

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