Example sentences of "scattered [prep] a wide area " in BNC.

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1 When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks .
2 The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks .
3 Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches .
4 The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale .
5 Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area .
6 Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area .
7 All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area .
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