1.   There, on a dusty windswept plain, a small wooden statue of a man in robes teeters upon a short pole.

2.   After traversing mile after mile of dry, yellow fields, you come on castle walls that rise magically from the dusty plain.

3.   But others said that people have left the dusty plains simply because they do not need to live here anymore.

4.   By late last night, British forces with light artillery and armored personnel carriers had corralled on a dusty plain outside the town of Kiseljak.

5.   Every crater, ravine or dusty plain has to be examined for subtle distortions that indicate early signs of breast cancer.

6.   If the story of the twins is myth, it is one that people in the dusty plains of Central Asia take very seriously.

7.   In a time when all the great ballet came from Europe, one of the greatest prima ballerinas rose from the dusty plains of Oklahoma.

8.   In other times, Afghan rulers built underground aqueducts to bring water from the mountains to villages and cities on the dusty plain.

9.   The forward base, lying on a barren dusty plain, serves as a refueling place for the helicopters and a base for supplies and ammunition.

10.   Unexploded U.S. cluster bombs and fragments of exploded missiles littered the dusty plain framed by grazing sheep and camels and lined with eucalyptus trees.