1.   I sail past a little development of off-the-shelf ranch homes.

2.   Atkins was able to buy a four-bedroom ranch home in Dublin, and his wife Jan was able to stay home raising their five children.

3.   Cows grazed in the fields behind modest ranch homes on rural roads with red-dirt shoulders.

4.   Early in his career, Courtney and his wife bought a three-bedroom ranch home on a middle-class cul-de-sac in Gladstone.

5.   For this small community of old farms, white clapboard churches, saltboxes and ranch homes, the Connecticut Yankee power plant has long paid the bills.

6.   He and Mrs. Oakley, an employment discrimination lawyer, live in a spacious ranch home in an Atlanta suburb.

7.   He awoke in his ranch home in the Los Angeles area of Van Nuys, unable to speak or move his left arm and leg.

8.   His nondescript three-bedroom ranch home, chosen for its proximity to the Toronto airport, sits deep in a crowded subdivision.

9.   It is a quiet town, pretty in a gritty way with weathered ranch homes stacked side by side and an entrepreneur selling birds and cages on one corner.

10.   Just west of Topeka, Kan., Ed and Diana Peden have converted a former missile site into a surprisingly inviting ranch home.