The 25-minute quartet unfolds on a vast patch of gray carpet, which features four bronze lampposts.

In the process, the changes killed vast patches of sea grass and sponges that serve as breeding grounds for fish, shrimp and spiny lobster.

There were vast patches of glassy smoothness near its centre, like solidified tar; black as night.

There are vast patches of bamboo.

A vast patch of the street had been stripped of its covering of algae.

The site is a vast dust-and-dirt patch just off the highway that serves as an auto and truck graveyard.

They were struggling, at the time, through a vast patch of bushes with thorns on them-they were not used to thorns-which they deeply distrusted.

Pools of water and reed-grown marsh materi- alized all along the trail they followed, vast patches of swamp in which nothing moved but the fog.

They struggled after Burl through vast patches of bushes with thorns on them.

Now that the Gingrich gang on Capitol Hill looks considerably less daunting, vast patches of those books have become instantly stale.