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Example sentences for: extending

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In the old days, there were measurable costs to extending the chain--time-consuming hand-copying or expensive photocopying or the price of postage.
Inside, as your eyes adjust to the dim light, you will see mesmerizing rows of columns extending into the shadows in every direction.
Venice and its Repubblica Serena rebounded to turn to the mainland, extending its Veneto territory from Padua across the Po valley as far as Bergamo.
Maybe this is the place to shatter a few more illusions, not restricting the names to England, as Mills does, but extending them to include other well-known places in Britain.
Now, in a paper published in this month's PLoS Medicine , they have gone further by extending the analysis to patients with different types of cancer, and producing an algorithm that allows semiautomation of the procedure.