In the mid-18th century the area's favourable climate and the expanse of available lands attracted settlers from mid-Atlantic coastal colonies and from Carolina lowlands.
The Augustinian abbey, built on the first available expanse of solid ground at the foot of the volcanic crag and tail, was founded in 1128 and rebuilt about 1220.
"Secondly, given the processing power, and the graphical ability of mobile devices nowadays, plus the vast expanse of games available, over the last five to seven years, mobile gaming has advanced almost beyond recognition.
Now a Web site founded five years ago by a conservatory student, then 19 years old, has made a vast expanse of this repertory available, free.
Because neutrinos so rarely collide with anything, detecting them requires a great deal of material — in the case of IceCube, the vast expanse of ice readily available at the South Pole.
Melting sea ice in the Arctic has left vast expanses of dark open water available to absorb the sun's energy.
The real lesson from Google's "cat detector" is that, even with the vast expanses of data and computing power available to Google, hierarchical-pattern recognizers still stink.
The city has just three rangers available for the entire expanse of GriffithPark, which includes a zoo, several children's play areas and more than 4,000 acres of wilderness.
Even the wilds of Mt. Meron didn't have the quality of an endless expanse of wilderness that's so easily available in the U.S. It feels so lived in, you're aware of so much human history along the way.
These people are the technology camels, hauling the riches of the cutting-edge research centers across the vast expanse of the empire and making them available to the regular Dilberts, shoppers and keyboard jockeys.
