Of great extent and importance is the Pearl River Delta.
"Mars clearly had periods of ponded water of great extent on the surface".
Siberia falls into four major geographic regions, all of great extent.
The regs form plains often of great extent, carpeted with pebbles and boulders.
Khwārezmian was the language of Khwārezm, a historic region in present-day Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan but formerly of greater extent.
Empire, major political unit in which the metropolis, or single sovereign authority, exercises control over territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples through formal annexations or various forms of informal domination.
"Our main achievement," he says, "must be the tremendous progress made in distributing electricity throughout a very sparsely populated area of great extent; a tremendous extent when you consider that the area we serve covers a quarter of the land area of the United Kingdom.
In 1769, the King of England ordered Cook to sail for a recently discovered island in the South Pacific and after, "when this Service is perform'd," he was to search uncharted latitudes for the fabled "terra australis incognita," "whereas there is reason to imagine that a Continent or Land of great extent, may be found".
Thus, "great men" depend on more things than other people do, and their slavery is of greater extent (see James 2005, and for a contrast, Schmitter 2010).
(She uses the word empire to refer to "a political unit having a territory of great extent, or a number of territories under a single sovereign authority" (xv).
