21.  A typhoon designated as typhoon Mike destroyed wide areas of the central Visayan islands and the north coast of Mindanao island in mid-November.

22.  Grass fires had damaged wide areas of the island of Sumatra, while on Sulawesi and in western Java stubble was burning out of control in rice paddies.

23.  These two documents named places over a very wide area of Italy rather than defined frontiers.

24.  The department offers supervision and teaching over a wide area of the history of art and architecture.

25.  Current work in the Centre covers a wide area and emphasises inter-disciplinary study and theoretically informed research.

26.  The main reason for repeated endoscopies was poor visualisation because of large amounts of blood in the stomach or wide areas of adherent haematin.

27.  Intimate links with the countryside were maintained, for the craftsmen drew upon local resources for their raw materials and also serviced a wide area.

28.  Any catering operation with its staff spread over a wide area can benefit.

29.  Much research is now directed to the vegetative propagation of high-yielding clones, despite the potential danger of growing genetically identical monocultures over wide areas.

30.  The pollution would have the most severe effect on Iraq and Iran, where agriculture was threatened over wide areas.