41.   The procedure then often was to start slowly, letting positive buzz on a film spread as the release widened to more theaters.

42.   The other side counters with arguments that large corporate operations take up far less land and animal wastes are spread as fertilizer on feed crops.

43.   The practice apparently spread as a show of religious devotion.

44.   The running battles spread as drivers summoned help over their two-way radios, and lasted until dawn Thursday, only to erupt again in the morning and evening.

45.   The southern uprising, meanwhile, was spreading as the army and police withdrew from the south.

46.   The virus continued spreading as pig farmers transported their stock to slaughter houses or exchanged hogs for breeding purposes.

47.   There were fears the violence could spread as Hindu nationalists called an all-India strike to protest the train deaths.

48.   Fighting broke out and quickly spread as opposition leader, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, addressed a rally in central Dhaka.

49.   Riots then spread as thousands of residents, armed with axes, bows and arrows rampaged through Timika and other towns and the Freeport offices.