Some 9,000 patients are now spread among 22 state hospitals at an average annual cost of $102,000.

If there was a fire would it be less quickly spread here than at sea level?

The ashes were to be spread either at sea or on the ground.

It spread like a dark green pool at her feet.

It spread across the floor but at a surprising rate.

They wanted that group to think it was true, and then such a story gets spread around back home at the university.

On the other hand, over the past 30-odd years, democracy has spread at the rate of one and a half nations per year.

We knew that the fires could spread at any minute.

But he had been allowed to see it, from the top of the mountain, spread at his feet.

All four types are spread at the same time in most countries.