Example sentences of "be spread [prep] a [adj] area " in BNC.
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| 1 | With both Cardiff and Newport dormant in recent years , other clubs have benefited from the movement of players ; talent has been spread over a wider area . |
| 2 | Consideration may need to be given to switching partners or departments to achieve this ; ( 3 ) inevitably , where the activities of a firm are spread over a wide area , problems arise in connection with the basic decision making processwhen , for example , partners ' meetings become more difficult to arrange . |
| 3 | Ireland , again unlike Holland , is a relatively big country and the players are spread over a wide area . |
| 4 | The absence of a temple in the vicinity of the buildings need not negate this hypothesis , since on most sites of this nature the buildings are spread over a considerable area . |
| 5 | Even within London the operations were spread over a wide area with , for example , designers at Greenford , south-east London , fittings in Battersea and pattern-cutting in Kilburn . |
| 6 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 7 | The population is spread over a large area of agricultural land . |