1.   He created a vast financial empire worth billions of dollars.

2.   It was a mammoth and indeed crippling undertaking and by the end of the Darius reign the vast empire was in Decline.

3.   Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire.

4.   The emperor Claudius ruled a vast empire stretching from Persia to Britain.

5.   The vast empire was beginning to crumble.

6.   With two partners, he created a vast financial empire of over half a billion dollars in some six years.

7.   Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that waxed and waned.

8.   After all, heroes who rule vast empires make for the most dramatic reversals of fortune.

9.   But after the plant was sold to Borden, it became just another outpost in a vast corporate empire, locals contend.

10.   But if the Academy once ruled with absolute authority over the vast Spanish empire, the Americas now have their own language academies that propose home-grown changes.