11.   It fills the air from one side of the basin to the other, miles across.

12.   Families tended to trek farther out to suburban enclaves in neighboring counties, subdivisions that sprawl for miles across the landscape.

13.   From where he helped them take off Thursday morning to where they crashed on return Thursday afternoon is only a few miles across the Ozarks hills.

14.   Golf courses aplenty, including the country club just over a mile across the lake where Clinton is expected to play with his host and two other developers.

15.   Here the silver river is miles across.

16.   Her attacker forced her into a car and drove a few miles across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

17.   It is the only time you can strut buck naked for miles across San Francisco and not find yourself wearing jailhouse orange at the end of the day.

18.   Muddy streams and stagnant pools dot the refugee camps here as daily rainstorms soak the thousands of thatched huts stretching for miles across this stark volcanic land.

19.   Oakland is a few miles across the East Bay from San Francisco.

20.   Not infrequently, dust from the Sahara desert in Africa travels several thousand miles across the Atlantic, dimming the cerulean skies over the Caribbean islands.