1.   It took a full forty-eight hours to span the continent from New York to Los Angeles.

2.   Their empire once spanned several continents.

3.   Its field activities span every continent and include many outstanding regions for the study of magmatism and metamorphism.

4.   Any of those alliances are dangerous for us because you have a network which spans three continents, potentially four.

5.   But the merger with NationsBank would span the continent in the way Giannini intended, from San Francisco to the Maryland shore.

6.   Covering whole regions, countries and in some cases spanning several continents, the anchor bottlers use their marketing and borrowing power to shoulder competitors off the shelves.

7.   He had enough miniature track, he said with Texas hyperbole, to span the continent.

8.   His own empire spans several continents with shops in the capitals of Europe, Asia, and America.

9.   One evolutionary pattern that does seem to emerge from an analysis of the fossils concerns the relationship of spinosaurs spanning three continents.

10.   Over the last decade, the Carlyle empire has grown to span three continents and include investments in most corners of the world.