31.   You look around here and cannot escape that this was once the center of a vast empire.

32.   Although news reports have said bin Laden funds his operations through a vast international financial empire, former associates have said those claims are exaggerated.

33.   Although press reports have said bin Laden funds his operations through a vast international financial empire, former associates say those claims are exaggerated.

34.   Some scholars believe the Manteno ran a vast maritime empire, trading by ocean with people as far north as the Aztecs in what is now Mexico.

35.   The last czar, Nicholas II, was buried there, and Russians were reminded this was once the capital of a vast empire.

36.   With its vast empire of state companies, domination of the media and loads of cash to buy votes, the PRI once seemed unstoppable.

37.   Investigators have named Dawood Ibrahim, who allegedly controls a vast criminal empire in Bombay from a safe haven abroad, as the prime suspect.

38.   Dawood Ibrahim is alleged by investigators to control a vast criminal empire in India from a safe haven in the Middle East.

39.   The prime suspect in the blasts, Dawood Ibrahim, is alleged by investigators to control a vast criminal empire in India from a safe haven abroad.

40.   These fathers of the metals sector lie alongside a plethora of multi-millionaires who have built vast empires out of retail and wholesale foods.