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Water began to spread across the floor.

Severe abdominal pain, which has since spread to her chest.

Many tropical rain forest plants (like those in other forests) have mycorrhizal (fungus-root) partners whose delicate hyphae spread through great volumes of soil, from which they release and absorb minerals and ferry them back to the host plant in exchange for needed organic compounds.

A large delta may spread out in this manner until it covers thousands of square kilometers.

As a result, small cattle herds spread south rapidly in areas where they could be grazed.

Industrial societies had figured out ways to combine large and growing cities with population growth, a development that would soon spread to other parts of the world.

Only a city within easy reach of both the Nile valley to the south and the more spread out, difficult terrain to the north could provide the necessary political control that the rulers of early dynastic Egypt (roughly 3000-2600 B.C.) required.

When Population II stars die, their material is spread out into space.

Farming in Kansas and eastern Colorado (central and western United States) proceeded rapidly in the 1870s and 1880s, but this was about 50 years before raccoons started to spread out from their major habitat, the wooded river bottomlands.

And since these bulbs remain viable for quite a long time, even out of the ground, they can be stored or transported long distances without much of a problem, which helps explain the spread of tulip cultivation.

Their spread throughout the Rocky Mountain West is indicative of the fast pace at which they can exploit new environments.

If the spread of the light-colored form of the moth continues at the same speed as the melanic form spread .in the last century, soon the melanic form will again be only an occasional resident of the Liverpool area.

But after only a decade's growth until the next fire, those young seedling plants are still too low for fire to spread from them into the crowns of the ponderosa pine trees.

In the early Middle Ages, Europe imported an industrial process from China, which turned almost any kind of fibrous material into pulp that was then spread in sheets.

The cumulative impact of this industrial spread was spectacular.

Once seen by the natives, such objects created a fashion which rapidly spread through the province.

Third, in a species-rich ecosystem, diseases may spread more slowly because most species will be relatively less abundant, thus increasing the average distance between individuals of the same species and hampering disease transmission among individuals.

In a similar way, trees in temperate forests that are insect pollinated tend to grow as solitary, widely spread individuals.

And it's believed that agriculture arose independently in a few areas of the world about ten thousand years ago, and then spread from those areas to the rest of the world.

They can only originate and spread in places where there's some dense physical medium, like atmosphere or water.

The disease spreads easily.

Some things tend to spread much quicker, um, for example, artistic, or architectural styles, such as domes used in architecture.

Even before the discovery of germs, beliefs that disease spread by "miasmas" (noxious forms of bad air) prompted attention to sewers and open garbage; Edwin Chadwick led an exemplary urban crusade for underground sewers in England in the 1830s.

However, against this is the potential for reinforcement translocations to spread disease from one population to another or to introduce deleterious or maladaptive genes to a population.

And as agriculture spread, the tamed ancestors of this subspecies spread with it.

The raccoon's expansion in various areas may also be due to the spread of agriculture.

If the paint is too thick, it will not spread evenly.

After you spread plaster on a surface, it'll harden, like cement does.

And that's because to create a fresco, the painting has to be applied very soon after the plaster has been spread over a surface, right on to the wet fresh plaster.

Apprentices mix paints, prepare the plaster, spread it on one section of the wall or ceiling, then finally paint on the wet plaster.

Why not pay monthly and spread the cost of your car insurance?

Sue spread the map out on the floor.

She spread her arms and the child ran towards her.

The company has a good geographical spread of hotels in this country.

They had laid on a huge spread for the party.

They have a huge spread in California (= a large farm or ranch ) .

The bird's wings have a spread of nearly a metre.

Use a low-fat spread instead of butter.

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