The territory was largely agricultural from the 17th century into the mid-20th, when it was then quickly developed into a sprawling network of bedroom suburbs.

In six years, it transformed itself from a student's list of cool Web sites into a sprawling network serving 185 million people a month.

The consultants were asked to make some sense of the firm's sprawling international network.

It's basically a series of springs with a sprawling underground network of caves.

The result is a sprawling network of possibilities and suspicions with no ultimately trustworthy account.

As a sector, state enterprises comprise a sprawling network of more than 100,000 factories, 10 percent of them here in the northeast.

That improvement will come largely from increased efficiency in the company's sprawling network of seven warehouses.

The sprawling network of lenders served the fund well, but it created a portfolio filled with what bankers call unpaired trades.

They need billions of dollars to upgrade their sprawling networks.

Thomas was being initiated into Brown's basketball family, a sprawling network of college and professional coaches.