Example sentences of "which extend over " in BNC.

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1 To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast .
2 From the slit along the bottom , it protrudes not only its foot but two sections of its mantle which extend over each flank of the shell and meet at the top .
3 Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes .
4 Even more extensive examples are the Deccan Plateau of India which covers more than 500 000 km 2 and the vast Parana Plateau which extends over some 750 000 km 2 of Uruguay and southern Brazil .
5 This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear .
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