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Along the way, we passed a murky expanse of water with oily scum on the surface.
NEWYORKER: Unconventional Crude
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The scene was blissfully beautiful: a placid expanse of water with patches of lotuses floating here and there, birds swooping and settling, children splashing, adults wading with fishing nets.
BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia
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Developing countries, where law enforcement is weak, seem to do better when a group right over an expanse of water is given to a co-operative or village fleet.
ECONOMIST: Fishing and rights
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The textures of shabby buildings and commercial signage along the riverbank contrast with a fragile tissue of lines representing countless masts, nautical rigging and curls of smoke that draw our eyes to the vanishing point along the blank unetched expanse of water.
WSJ: River Romantics | The Panoramic River | Hudson River Museum | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer
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Every day four waste treatment plants feed more than 250 million gallons of nitrogen filled wastewater into the bay, a massive expanse of 20, 000 acres of water sitting where Brooklyn and Queens meet at their southernmost point.
FORBES: Oysters Are Back In New York City Waters
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Jetties Beach, just north of town, was the family crowd pleaser with a far expanse of warm, shallow water, a decent concession stand and -- while we were there -- seal sightings.
BBC: The kid-friendly perfection of Nantucket
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Here mountains give way to an expanse of deserted white sand that runs hundreds of metres from shore at low tide, with the warm water waist-deep for hundred of metres more.
BBC: Vietnam's prison-island paradise