21.   Rescue workers took about four hours trekking through thick jungle to reach the wreckage.

22.   Saurimo is located in an area of thick jungle in a main diamond-mining region.

23.   Searchers continued hacking through thick Vietnamese jungle and were expected to reach the wreckage on Tuesday.

24.   The area adjoins the thick Indonesian jungles, from where fires spewed smoke that blanketed many parts of Southeast Asia.

25.   The helicopters flew over three tiny towns surrounded by thick jungle and rivers.

26.   The numerically inferior Japanese surprised British military planners by attacking the supposedly impregnable island from the rear and fighting through thick jungle.

27.   The numerically inferior Japanese forces caught British military planners by surprise by attacking the supposedly impregnable island from the rear and fighting through thick jungle.

28.   The over-exploitation of tropical forests is a major issue in several island nations where mostly Asian lumber firms have transformed thick jungles in vast tracts of open space.

29.   The task had become impossible as the bodies are falling apart in the tropical heat, and the thick jungle swamps are impenetrable.

30.   The Zapatista troops melted with few traces into the thick jungle, cut by few roads negotiable by military vehicles.