Sentence examples for extends for about from inspiring English sources

The rift valley extends for about 4,000 miles, its course being clearly marked by many of the lakes of East Africa as well as by the adjacent volcanic peaks.

The Somerset Levels and Moors is a unique flat landscape that extends for about 170,000 acres (70,000 ha) across parts of the north and centre of the county of Somerset in the West of England.

The Gap is a large, dry, open area that presently extends for about 700 km through Benin, Togo and eastern Ghana [ 10], but it may have been up to 1,400 km wide during the cool, arid phases of the Pleistocene [ 3].

The sewage main that he fell into extends for about two miles.

Saint-Louis lies in the river's estuary, which extends for about 10 miles (16 km) to the river's mouth.

In Sudan and South Sudan, steamer service on the Nile and its tributaries extends for about 2,400 miles.

The Western Carpathians extend for about 220 miles (350 km) between the Danube and Someș rivers.

Roughly 60 miles (100 km) wide, they extend for about 100 miles (160 km), from the Copper River to the St. Elias Mountains near the border with Yukon, Canada.

The mountains extend for about 190 miles (305 km) and parallel the Rocky Mountain Trench, which separates them from the Canadian Rockies.

A section of the Transantarctic Mountains, the Prince Albert Mountains extend for about 230 miles (370 km) along the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, west of the Ross Sea.

There the river cuts into an outcrop of ancient basement rock, forming rapids that extend for about 50 miles (80 km) to Jebba.