Eventually, the system would stretch 58 miles and cover most of the city, they say.

The spilled oil at one point stretched 25 miles along the river.

The pipeline is expected to stretch more than 900 miles.

A $5 billion water tunnel stretching 64 miles: they said it couldn't be done.

If all the lights were to be strung together, they would stretch nearly 70 miles.

Then we were silent for a few moments, the line open between us, stretching two thousand miles.

Eventually, it is to stretch 225 miles, at an estimated cost of well over a million dollars a mile.

The island makes an enormous lee that often stretches twenty miles to the west.

By one estimate, these walls collectively would stretch 31,000 miles were they all still standing.

The range stretches as much as a hundred miles north to south.