Sentences with phrase «scattered over a large area»

Cluster bombs, which can either be dropped by planes or launched as artillery, are scattered over a large area but frequently fail to detonate, resulting in a serious hazard for civilians once conflicts have resolved.

All the statues at the site were found broken to pieces and scattered over a large area.

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However, in spite of the prodigious numerical losses, the largest proportionately which Christianity was to know, by A.D. 950 Christian communities were scattered over a broader area than they had been in A.D. 500.

During the last decade Britain's use of cluster bombs, which release and scatter small bomblets over a large area, has been surpassed by only two other countries around the world.

The fact that vials of this particular vaccine had to be stored in Nairobi is peculiar for two reasons: for one, according to the KCDA this is not usually required for vaccine distribution, and, for another, the Kenya Catholic Health Commission (as the medical branch of the KCCB) also manages a network of 448 Catholic health units consisting of 54 hospitals, 83 health centers and 311 clinical dispensaries plus more than 46 programs for Community Based Health and Orphaned and Vulnerable Children scattered all over Kenya's 224,962 square miles [93]-- an area larger than any US state in the lower 48 except for Texas at 268,601 square miles [94].

Covering an area larger than the United Kingdom, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, made up of more than 2,900 coral reefs and 900 islands scattered over 344,400 sq km off the coast of Queensland in north - east Australia.