the space of the stage vs tha stage space

Some examples from the web:

• A lot of the spectators have left their back rows and are thronging the empty space in front of the stage.
• I'm calling because it's my understanding you might have some stage space available.
• Al, Keanu and Connie did the whole thing in this large stage space.
• Do you think Joan can rent stage space without talking to me?
• I borrowed money from my Uncle Amal to buy this guy off, but my uncle is now making me pay it back in stage space.
• China appears to many African governments as an example to follow, as it has succeeded in escaping from poverty, defeating disease and becoming a leading player on the world stage within the space of a single generation.
• The agreements are of course a two-stage process: interim agreements to ensure we do not face the WTO challenge and to create some breathing space for the second stage, the negotiation of full EPAs.
• This is the space of poker and Play Station.
• Flogged me twice in the space of a week.
• Within the space of a month, a dozen children disappeared.
• All happened in the space of a minute.
• And all dying within the space of a year.
• No, the space of an instant.
• Damage caused by nuclear explosions the space of just a theory.
• It is not possible to improvise coordinated action in the space of 24 hours.
• We very strongly believe that the theatrics of a concert hall is as much in the space of intermission and the space of arrival as it is when the concert starts.
• It is important for packaging to take place in the area, since the stages of harvesting, cleaning up, washing and packaging must take place in a short space of time in order to prevent degradation of the physical and organoleptic characteristics of the product.
• A missing person and a violent burglary in the space of a week.
• You've decimated the team in the space of 24 hours.
• In the space of 27 blood-soaked minutes 12 innocent people gunned down by hospital orderly John Charles Bartlett.

Some examples from the web:

• I'm calling because it's my understanding you might have some stage space available.
• Al, Keanu and Connie did the whole thing in this large stage space.
• Do you think Joan can rent stage space without talking to me?
• I borrowed money from my Uncle Amal to buy this guy off, but my uncle is now making me pay it back in stage space.