31.   Trees and brush ignited by the bombardment sent clouds of smoke that obscured large stretches of the hillside.

32.   TV footage showed large stretches of rice fields underwater and crumpled cars swept away in flood water.

33.   In the past month the Taliban have made two successful infantry advances against their rivals and captured a large stretch of territory north of Kabul.

34.   Cholera, which is characterised by acute diarrhoea and vomiting, is associated with overpopulation and spreads in areas where there are large stretches of water or polluted reservoirs.

35.   The railways cancelled several long-distance trains which pass through Andhra Pradesh after large stretches of tracks came under a sea of water.

36.   It left large stretches of normally open ocean covered with ice during crucial spring and summer months.

37.   Rail Florida would use large stretches of existing rail -- where in recent years several accidents, including fatal ones, have taken place.

38.   Santa Rosa county encouraged voluntary evacuation of Navarre beach and Okaloosa county ordered the evacuation of a large stretch of bechfront land.

39.   The chaos was compounded by another alert which brought a large stretch of a third motorway to a standstill.

40.   The Cambodian army has suffered a string of battlefield defeats this year at the hands of the Khmer Rouge rebels, who control large stretches of western Cambodia.