Example sentences of "spread across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken together , they offered a picture of humanity in millennia to come — spread across the galaxy , with Earth but a distant memory — yet still in thrall to its sublunary nature . |
| 2 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 3 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 4 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 5 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 6 | They spread across the opening to the valley that was called Jackley Plain , and there Roger Morgan could go no further . |
| 7 | When an action potential reaches a synapse it releases the neurotransmitters which spread across the synapse to reach the next , or postsynaptic , nerve cell . |