Sentence examples for continuous expanse from inspiring English sources

In the Flamboyant style wall space was reduced to the minimum of supporting vertical shafts to allow an almost continuous expanse of glass and tracery.

A large continuous expanse of settled civilisations was formed; technologies diffused through that expanse with relative ease, so new ideas did not have to be reinvented by every single culture.Technologies were not the only thing to flourish in Europe.

The South and East Flevoland polders form a continuous expanse of rich marine clay separated from the Northeast Polder to the north by the 1- to 3-mile- (1.6- to 5-km) wide Lake Ketel, from Overijssel and Gelderland provinces to the east and southeast by the narrow Lake Veluwe, and from Utrecht and Noord-Holland provinces to the south and southwest by the narrow Gooi and Eem lakes.

While the majority (~70%) of the Australian continent is covered by arid or semi-arid vegetation, eastern Australia provides a narrow, but largely continuous expanse of habitat for mesic-adapted species [ 1, 3, 4].

Throughout its range, the Red-lored Parrot is found in wooded lowland habitats, although it is usually absent from large continuous expanses of forest.

Ground-dwelling arthropod abundance and richness measurements were highest in burned habitats that had remnant long-lived vegetation present, whereas small mammal abundance and richness measurements were highest in continuous expanses of unburned habitat.

If asked whether our typical visual fields are fully continuous, even when one of our eyes is closed, most of us are inclined to answer in the affirmative: when we look at (say) a white wall, we see an uninterrupted expanse of white.

Wall surface was reduced to the minimum to allow an almost continuous window expanse.

(Under today's codes, that expanse would allow 2,200 bathers).

Vast expanses of continuous coral cover were found extending for tens of square kilometres, dominated by stony, reef-building corals in the genus Leptoseris, a plate-like coral adapted for deepwater environments.

Thekla larks were most abundant in landscapes with small grassland patches and high edge density, whereas calandra larks were abundant only in large expanses of continuous open farmland habitat.