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Meanings of great stretches in English

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Usage of great stretches in English
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The state owns the railways, many mines, and great stretches of land.
Modern American Prose Selections
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Even then it had magnificent trees and great stretches of grass, green and velvety.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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The great stretches of darkness could hide crawling dangers.
The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil Wa...
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Farther south it was darker and more unfriendly, with great stretches of shade and silence.
Stubble
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The West is a wonderful country, with its canons and mountains and great stretches of plain.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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We came to great stretches of reeds and yielding grass, giving with every step into water.
1492
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Sometimes he looked at Rosamund and saw great stretches of sea rolling under great stretches of sky.
In the Wilderness
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Now they glided over dark forests of spruce, and now swept above great stretches of barren lands.
Lost in the Air
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These few restrictions I hope are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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This was a very long strand, great stretches of white sand with nothing to break them up.
Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
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Out of the dim great stretches there emerged advancing a little figure, black-clad; advancing silent, with lowered head.
V. V.'s Eyes
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These lakes have soda or salt in their waters, and great stretches of dry alkali lands around them.
Stories of California
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Between the somewhat desolate mountain ranges and great stretches of sandy soil we came upon innumerable thriving villages.
Korea's Fight for Freedom
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They found a beautiful country with thick woods reaching to the shore, and great stretches of white sand.
The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada
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The low sea islands, the great stretches of marsh grass, the beaches, and boats cocked as if to dry.
All That Is
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The air is very sweet here in England; I see oceans of trees, great stretches of heath and meadow.
The Wings of Icarus: Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher
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