Yet, for a vast area home to 450m people, this is still a tiny force.
This treasure is a vast area of mosaic pavements which once graced the floor of a Byzantine church.
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago is a vast area, comprising some 36, 000 islands.
But even then, the planned total of 12 companies or approximately 2, 400 fighting soldiers looks small given the vast area they must cover.
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On one of my first visits to a mountaintop site in West Virginia, I stood on the edge of a vast area under excavation.
Hurricane Sandy made landfall Oct. 29 near Atlantic City on the U.S. East Coast, south of New York City, but losses extended over a vast area.
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The former intelligence chief said the Libyan army had little capability in this vast area of desert and there was a fear of confronting the extremists.
The Wadi is not a single valley (as the Arabic word suggests) but rather a vast area of protected desert in which the Bedouin have established numerous government-approved camps.
According to a web tool that puts the slick over your home region, the vast area of surface oil is now bigger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island combined.
The Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean constitute a vast area that swallow up the small boats of the innumerable desperate tribesmen willing to take a chance for riches.
The vast area of waters, dotted with partially submerged atolls and reefs, contain some of the world's busiest shipping lanes and are thought to hold large deposits of oil and natural gas.
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This is the third time the race has taken place in the Complexo do Alemao, a vast area of interconnected slums once ruled by some of the most powerful drug gangs in Brazil.
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The fear that really prompted French intervention and that guaranteed it wide-spread support was the nightmare that a vast area like northern Mali could turn into ungoverned space providing a sanctuary for AQIM.
The 5, 844sqkm Cinaruco Canaparo National Park covers part of this vast area, but most travellers visit with a tour operator like Guamanchi Expeditions and Arassari Trek, both of which organise four-day safaris that leave from Merida.
Explore the vast area on a golf cart, hopping on and off to see abbreviated operas from the Tang Dynasty days, laser shows on the lake, elaborate man-made waterfalls, as well as murals and statues of historical figures, philosophers and poets.
The Mediterranean coastal fringes have a Mediterranean climate with some rain between October and March, but the vast area of desert inland has very little rain at all and here some of the highest temperatures in the world have been recorded.
West Mercia straddles a vast geographical area covering the whole of Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
We utilize interactive television to broadcast lectures across our vast service area which is larger than 10 states.
Dumisa Ntsebeza said this would give him time to consult his clients, who are scattered across a vast rural area.
These magnificent works came from a vast geographic area, which includes present-day Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, India, Spain and Morocco.
The touchstone of that business model remains the monthly subscriber fee, one typically levied on every cable household in a vast metro area irrespective of interest in sports programming.
Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz or Nevruz marks the New Year and the beginning of spring across a vast geographical area covering, inter alia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
One area of concern is the Sahel, a vast semi-arid area south of the Sahara desert.
France says its troops will start pulling out of Mali in March, and hand over control of the vast northern desert area to African forces.
We ford streams, some deep as Nell's knees, then head into a vast, newly burned area where dust covers our faces and the air still smells of ash.
The TPP would create a vast new free trade area between the United States, on the one hand, and various nations on the other side of the Pacific, on the other.
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Its expansion from 15 members to 25 should create pressure for making the EU what it always should have been--a vast free-trade area with open borders and, for most members, a common currency.
Instead, the EU will begin to evolve into what it should have been in the first place: a vast free-trade area in which political control is exercised by individual members, with EU bureaucrats in Brussels concerned only with reducing internal trade barriers.
The area, which contains vast reserves of oil, is currently controlled by the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad.
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