Thanks to global warming, Arctic ice now melts faster in summer, creating expanses of open water covering more than 1000 kilometers.
Although narrow, the estuary is tidal and fast flowing due to the large expanse of mud flats and docks that lie behind the Towans, so the path turns away from St Ives Bay to go round via Hayle.
Where the north half required great thicknesses of brick in the load-bearing walls, the addition employed only a thin facing of brick and terracotta trim, affording larger expanses of glass and faster, less expensive construction.
Then the road I was on descended from a ridge to the mostly unflooded river town of Hamburg, Illinois, and the Mississippi itself was running fast beside the main street, and just across the shining expanse were the houses and church steeples on the Missouri side.
You're African, you don't have email, silly!" As well as the important matter of finding out which country on Earth breeds the fastest runners, swimmers and people who can ski across vast expanses of land pausing occasionally to shoot fairground pop guns, the Olympics is also about cultural exchange.
Amid the grandeur and inaction, and against the backdrop of the long, dark-hued (Glass uses no violins here) expanses of the score, the dancing balls were the only fast-moving ingredient.
Catalysed through elaborate mathematical formulae, and processing "fast frame rates and variable bit depths", the final effect is of an almost astronomical expanse of abstract information.
For forests in a world with a growing population, with growing needs, but a fixed expanse of land, faster increases of volume or carbon than decreases of area during recent decades are encouraging.
Cowed by expanses of immaculate white walls?
