Since 2008's financial crisis, they've bought more than 100 tonnes of the stuff every year - a vast increase on 2005's 15 tonnes.

Once completed, the stations will be able to handle a vast increase in passenger numbers.

Consequently, there's been a vast increase in spitting.

Two things are likely to undermine the potential for a vast increase in property prices though.

This has led to a vast increase in the number of uranium miners and explorers hoping to cash in on the price rises.

A small dent has been made in the vast pile of food thrown away.

What novel centres on a vast pile of dust?

They found the squalid room crammed with a vast pile of rubbish - including bin bags, bottles, cans and cardboard.

The vast pile was once described as 'having 11 staircases, 82 chimneys and a dining room 110 yards from the kitchen, which accommodates ... a steam-driven cherry stoner'.

Somehow, he has spent more than a decade accumulating a vast pile of runs in one-day cricket while, seemingly, seldom being sure of his place in the side for long.

Could it be an exchange of money for influence, of vast wealth for respectability?

Even if our tastes are less highfalutin, we would surely carry off vast wealth more stylishly than your average millionaire footballer.

Vast wealth creates a kind of blindness, a zero-visibility blizzard of selfimportance, entitlement, disgruntlement and obsession.

After all, the total absence of a lower jaw has long been an indicator of vast wealth, influence and social standing.

Vast wealth has been created and fortunes made from mining but lives and landscapes have also been destroyed.

The 300-hectare space was once part of a vast wilderness.

Head high for the best terrain — where you'll also find the wide blue trails — and picturesque views of the vast wilderness.

Below, there are snaking headlights and chattering crowds, but up here only emptiness: a vast wilderness of silent forests and mirror-still lakes where almost no one goes.

And if you follow in his footsteps, you will find that vast wilderness remains as thrillingly untamed as it was in 1862.

The northern coniferous forests are a vast wilderness of pine and spruce trees mixed with patchy stands of birch and poplar.