For decades vast lands lay vacant there waiting for business and residential development.
Much of their confidence was due to unexpected success in India, where as the over-extended Moghul empire imploded in the 18th century, a vast subcontinent lay open to a multitude of warlords, both Indian and foreign.
For the analyses, we only studied saccades with an amplitude of 8° or less (the vast majority lay in the region 0.5° 3° amplitude), and saccades that remained within a region measuring 6° across by 12° high.
Before it, across a vast terrain, lies an enormous circular, closed-off structure.
Much of Russia's vast reserves lie in Siberia, where the country's primitive pipeline infrastructure makes shipping a nightmare.
An implausibly vast book lies open on a stand, with a quotation from Aristotle on its page.
About half of this vast area lies at elevations of less than 650 feet (200 metres) above sea level, and the highest point (in the Valdai Hills, northwest of Moscow) reaches only 1,125 feet (343 metres).
In 1663 Charles II granted Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, and seven other members of the British nobility a charter to establish the colony of Carolina in a vast territory lying between the 31st and the 36th parallels and extending from theAtlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
The main hazard of that meeting was that it took place in Mr Amin's very small bedroom with the vast dictator lying on the bed, strenuously urging the fastidious Egyptian to join him there: "To try to satisfy him, I pulled my chair closer to the bed and raised my shoes so that the heels were just hanging on the edge of the bed".
The vast land lies in the Cumbria region, where you can find numerous small villages in addition to natural beauty.
As the discoveries of modern science create tremendous hope, they also lay vast ethical minefields.
