It spans almost 35 miles -- 183,421.006 feet, actually -- but is accurate to within 12 inches.
It spans almost 700 organisations as diverse as the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the City of Newcastle and the Australian National University.
In between, it spans almost 50 years, taking in the miners' strike, Aids and the legacy of suppressed secrets and lies in one family over two generations.
At two and a half hours, "Burning" is close to double the length of Bradshaw's previous works, and it spans almost thirty years, from the mid-eighties to the present.
Indeed, though the novel is not much more than 150 pages long, it spans almost 50 years, as if even taken together these three women can't quite fill up an entire book.
Russia's border meets with 16 other nations (not including Abkhazia and South Ossetia), and at more than 12,000 miles long, it spans almost every conceivable visual landscape.
It spans almost the entire Mediator complex, extending a distance of about 220 Å from N-terminal interactions with Med10-Med19 athehe tip of the Middle module to C-terminal interactions at the Middle-Tail contact region.
About A.D. 200, as it entered its golden age, Teotihuacan spanned almost nine square miles.
"They seemed O.K. with it," he said; thus began a project that has spanned almost his whole career.
Bradley's baseball career spanned almost 30 years.
His career in journalism spanned almost five decades.
