1.   A clutch of them have clawed their way to the higher reaches of educational administration.

2.   But in the higher reaches of the Yorkshire Dales, there is nowhere to hide.

3.   In its higher reaches in particular it was still, as generally in the eighteenth century, the preserve of a social lite.

4.   At the higher reaches of the communications equipment business, list price does not mean much.

5.   But in fact alternative ways of dealing with global warming are not under active study at the higher reaches of the Bush administration.

6.   He has a vast network of contacts that begins in the Mexican underworld and extends into the higher reaches of official life.

7.   Joshua trees grow in great numbers in the preserve, and there are pinon juniper forests in the higher reaches as well.

8.   She also dismissed the notion that she had felt in any way limited in the higher reaches of the television corporate world because she is a woman.

9.   The higher reaches of the sky may have been contaminated by terrestrial microbes riding on satellites or rockets.

10.   This time of year, wintry weather is not only rapidly retreating northward but also receding to the higher reaches of the atmosphere.