Virtually all of the grain had been harvested, leaving wide tracts of ground with no cover at all.

According to international relief officials, the war has left vast tracts of Mozambique unsafe or inaccessible.

A flight up the narrow Tipuani River valley shows how small and large mining operations have scarred the riverbanks, leaving large tracts of barren soil.

This is quite different than our Continental neighbours who left very large tracts of woodland.

Also, instead of single-family homes on large lots, the development clusters the housing to leave tracts of open land.

Urban renewal left vast empty tracts.

Later treaties led to a large portion of the remaining Miami leaving the state, all in exchange for compensation and tracts of land in the west.

Occasionally it turned a little inland to pass through beech forests, leaving large tracts of green, wooded land bounding on to the sea.

Settlers clung together, leaving large tracts desolate about them as the price of the clinging-empty, that is, until population increase filled it.

Nearly all the good farm land had been sold, leaving large tracts of grazing land or timber.