One of the largest was Lake Agassiz, which covered sizable areas of Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan and extended into North Dakota and Minnesota.
The government had lost effective control of sizable areas of the country, including parts of major cities, the United Nations report said.
"As of 1874 a huge piece of landfill was already there," she said, tracing a sizable area on the map marked "made land" with her finger.
Yards away from the Wheatsheaf, and extending over a sizable area to the base of Southwark Cathedral, is the market itself, where hundreds of stalls ply an often frantic and always delectable trade.
In these cases, it could be best to excavate a sizable area for the purpose of installing an underground tank.
That's really the first time we'll have done that in any kind of sizable area". Some environmentalists noted yesterday that the extra protection was an easy call for the administration, in part because there was little significant opposition in Hawaii or Washington.
With nowhere to go on either side, the renovators came up with the idea of building down, excavating from beneath the theater and the eastern end of Sloane Square a sizable area housing a restaurant, bars, a kitchen, bookshop and bathrooms.
The pipes distribute the effluent over a sizable area as it seeps through the gravel and into the underlying layers of soil.
Present-day Chittagong was developed according to a series of master plans, which included the construction of various buildings and two sizable markets (covering an area of about 700,000 square feet [65,000 square metres]).
