Large swaths of the city's residential areas away from the lake are characterized by brick bungalows built from the early 20th century through the end of World War II.

Large swaths of housing — 7. 4 % of the city's housing stock in 2006 -- remain vacant.

Large swaths of rural Quebec, mainly the Gaspé Peninsula and the north shore, were served from 1927 by an entity known as Corporation de Téléphone et de Pouvoir de Québec, and in 1955, this became known as Québec Téléphone.

Large swaths of mangrove and nipa palm forests cover its brackish waterways and shallow fringes of its coastlines.

Large factories and industrial complexes were erected, covering vast swaths of city land.

Large races became popular during the 1890s " Golden Age of Cycling ", with events across Europe, and in the U. S. and Japan as well.

Large battles occurred during the change between regimes and a number of defeated samurai were destroyed, became ronin or were absorbed into the general populace.

The song Poppa Large, remixed by Da Beatminerz became a hit and remains a staple of Kool Keith's live show.

Large parts of the New World became Spanish and Portuguese colonies, and while the Portuguese became the masters of Asia's and Africa's Indian Ocean trade, the Spanish opened trade across the Pacific Ocean, linking the Americas with Asia.

Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival and Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm, evolving into stadium rock in the process.

Large landowners, who had become more self-sufficient, became less mindful of Rome ’ s central authority, particularly in the Western Empire, and were downright hostile towards its tax collectors.

Large hotels, dry goods and hardware stores, copper shops that manufactured flour barrels, and a sawmill all became part of the town ’ s healthy economy.

Large Creole bands that played for funerals and parades became a major basis for early jazz, which spread from New Orleans to Chicago and other northern urban centers.

These featured a profile of Queen Victoria, based on an engraving by Charles Henry Jeens and became known to philatelists as the " Large Queens ".

Consequently, Curtiss was asked to develop a larger flying boat, which was designated the " Large America " or Curtiss Model H8 when it became available in 1917, but when some H8s were tested at Felixstowe, they too were found to be underpowered.

Large colonies of feral parrots are present in various parts of the world, with Rose-ringed Parakeets, Monk Parakeets and Red-masked Parakeets ( the latter of which became the subject of the documentary film, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill ) being particularly successful outside of their native habitats and adapting well to suburban environments.

Large carvings also became important, especially painted wooden crucifixes like the Gero Cross from the very start of the period, and figures of the Virgin Mary like the Golden Madonna of Essen.

Large factories were built in the town and it became one of the important industrial and commercial centres of Eastern Poland.

Large numbers of people became members simply for reasons of patronage: to maintain or gain important positions, while holding little commitment to the SPS program.

Large factories became increasingly common towards the end of the century when engineering industries became increasingly important.

Large cities became dominated by political machines in which constituents supported a candidate in exchange for anticipated patronage.

Large numbers of Percherons were imported to the United States beginning in the early 1870s, and they became popular with draft horse breeders and owners.

On 13 June 2011, he became Editor at Large at Reuters.

A radio enthusiast from an early age ( with an amateur radio station K2KOQ in a corner of the basement ), he became a DJ (" Large Sarge ") on WHVW in nearby Hyde Park, after helping build the station.

In 1968, Yalow was appointed Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she later became the Solomon Berson Distinguished Professor at Large.

At the same time, however, Little and Large and Cannon and Ball also became enormously successful.

Large gardens had also been created and it became an attraction for the city.

Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide.

Large zones of serpentine, a very ancient metamorphic rock ( among the oldest on earth ), dating from the early Mesozoic ( Triassic ) Era, are found in numerous locations.

Large squares named after culture heroes, well-groomed parks, and pedestrian-only zones, are features of these orderly towns and cities, especially where large scale Baroque urban planning took place, for instance in Varaždin and Karlovac.

Large cargo planes can use the airport, making possible convenient freight movement to and from nearby industrial zones.

Large injection-molded letters are also available for sign installations.

* ATLAS experiment, a particle detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

The earliest Para-Mongolic text is the Memorial for Yelu Yanning, written in the Khitan Large Script and dated to 986 AD.

* Backstage Magazine – Large website and subscription service for actors.

Large programs were often written with the most-used subroutines at the top of the program to reduce the processing time for calls.

Large burning lens are sometimes made as Fresnel lenses, similar to lighthouse lenses, including for use in solar furnaces.

Large beaks were found on the islands where the primary source of food for the finches are nuts and therefore the large beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for opening the nuts and staying well nourished.

Large accumulations of coal, which have remained inert for hundreds of millions of years in the absence of oxygen, may spontaneously combust when exposed to air, for example in coal mine waste tips.

Large scale shipbuilding began in the 1790s, beginning with schooners for local trade moving in the 1820s to larger brigs and brigantines, mostly built for British shipowners.

Large collections of bird fossils representing a range of different species provides definitive evidence for the persistence of archaic birds to within 300, 000 years of the K – Pg boundary.

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Large submarines ( for example, Echo and Oscar classes ) were developed to carry these weapons and shadow US battle groups at sea, and large bombers ( for example, Backfire, Bear, and Blackjack models ) were equipped with the weapons in their air-launched cruise missile ( ALCM ) configuration.

Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the British A. vulgaris was joined by other European and North American varieties.

Large class actions brought in federal court frequently are consolidated for pre-trial purposes through the device of multidistrict litigation ( MDL ).

Dorado is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa.

In 1970, he wrote a number of papers that outlined a new approach to database construction that eventually culminated in the groundbreaking A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.

* 2005: Large Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria

Large projects require more elaborate processes for controlling baseline revisions, more thorough integration with subcontractor EVM systems, and more elaborate management of procured materials.

Large diameter borings are rarely used due to safety concerns and expense, but are sometimes used to allow a geologist or engineer to be lowered into the borehole for direct visual and manual examination of the soil and rock stratigraphy.

Large sugar plantations that produce for both export and local consumption purposes continue to dominate.

Large galaxies can have more: Andromeda, for instance, may have as many as 500.