Sentence examples for vast in extent from inspiring English sources
So it's apt that it has become a kind of pop oil slick – vast in extent, coating modern music in its glutinous science.
Colder rock in the lower mantle does underlie the Pacific rim, he said, but it is vast in extent rather than concentrated into slabs.
Similar programmes are effectively underway for key bacterial and fungal species (but here the ease of culture, single-celled target and size of the genome means that the programmes are not vast in extent).
It recognized that the world's forests were still vast in extent, that they represented a renewable resource, that their biomass was by far the largest of all vegetation types, that the potential for sustained growth and production and for expansion was still immense.
They differentiate in accordance with the so called model of superfluous genes suppression [ 15], while the capability of acquisition of a more mature phenotype is inhibited to a vast extent in glioblastomas.
Since the discovery of differences in extent of excretion of isoniazid, a vast literature has developed documenting many other genetic polymorphisms for drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters.
One of the biggest challenges in managing forests is their vast geographic extent.
They're a cubic mile in extent.
The government has issued billions of dollars in contracts in recent years, underscoring the vast extent of work that U.S. officials are commissioning.
All rest for their justification upon the same reasons which have arisen in recent times as a result of the great increase and concentration of population in urban communities and the vast changes in the extent and complexity of the problems of modern city life.
Geography, Keegan writes, is "the most important of all factors that impinge on war-making," especially in North America, where "the vast extent of territory and its varied and dramatic character oblige soldiers to conform to its demands more rigorously than in almost any other region of the world".
