1.   Consolidation is creating huge banks that span large areas, in turn raising questions over whether the new giants will continue to serve their old communities.

2.   ETour arranges its best recommendations in broad categories that span areas such as arts and entertainment, news, shopping and sports.

3.   Once fully assembled, the outpost will span an area the size of two football fields placed side by side and house seven cosmonauts and astronauts.

4.   The consortium envisions a complex spanning an area equal to two football fields placed side by side, housing a crew of seven.

5.   It spans an area of the sky of two degrees by five degrees, an area about forty times that of the full moon as seen from Earth.

6.   The Golden Triangle technically spans areas of Burma, Laos and Thailand, but has increasingly come to include areas of Vietnam and southern China.