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acres
1. With that and his old place, he could buy a pretty nice place in town, a couple acres on the lagoon just a little ways down the point
2. It's just two thousand acres, a couple dozen hired hands
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4. They were still big parcels of land by native standards, ten to a hundred acres
5. The average native family had between one and three acres in this society and planted most of it with most of their diet, most of the remainder of their diet being varmints trapped while trying to eat it
6. We mind acres of thesh, but we also follow lentosaur and thonga out on the plains
7. The largest harbor in the world was 60 acres in Athens
8. So, Herod built his 520 acres
9. across the wide acres of parading grass,
10. He knew there were a million acres of it growing along the approaches to the city
11. The boundary includes just over two hundred and fifty acres, much of it capped by the pyramid and the dome
12. Desa would love to stay in this mountain scenery, but it would be nice to have a couple acres of bottom land and a slow stream
13. Then there was a couple acres surrounded by the slanting board fence he had tripped over late in Afternoonday
14. the acres and acres of wildflower-choked meadows, and
15. We had a pleasant picnic on a rise overlooking acres of
16. Such a negro, over and above this quantity of tobacco, can manage, they reckon, four acres of Indian corn
17. They had almost three acres of land down in Yoonbarla Vale, the little finger of the great valley that followed Yoonbarla Brook up towards the falls for over three miles
18. He embellishes, perhaps, four or five hundred acres in the neighbourhood of his house, at ten times the expense which the land is worth after all his improvements; and finds, that if he was to improve his whole estate in the same manner, and he has little taste for any other, he would be a bankrupt before he had finished the tenth part of it
19. in the 19th century), raising corn and alfalfa along with some cows, pigs, and chickens on their quarter section (around 160 acres) of land
20. To remedy this disorder, for such it was supposed to be, a law was made, restricting the quantity of land which any citizen could possess to five hundred jugera; about 350 English acres
21. Because of his work he was granted thousands of acres including this parcel
22. He ran the grounds of the estate, all five acres; felt the desire to leave, go into the wild woods beyond
23. We moved from farm country to the woods at the base of the Swan Mountains in Montana, living on acres of dense pine and fir forest laced with snowberry and wild spirea, black hawthorn, birch, and aspen
24. several thousand acres of land in New England
25. This was the beginning of turning over thousands of acres
26. thousand acres; this represented less than half the landholdings of the Acushnet Saw Mills at its peak
27. They sailed over hundreds of these picturesque gardens which could literally be tens of acres of land
28. Were the dogs out there someplace again? Josh, Bill and Alex had gone hunting for them the day after the attack, but they lost the trail in some rocks on her back 40 acres
29. twelve acres of woods and rolling hills, all
30. She sifted through a couple folders, enough to learn Arbitan was a Turgonian entrepreneur who owned hundreds of acres of orchards around the capital, but she did not have time to poke into every file in every drawer
31. Hamp had purchased fifteen acres outside of Martinez on the North side of Highway number 4 and had also purchased another two acres on the opposite side of Highway number 4 where he built his home and shops
32. I told her that I would not abandon her since she and I already owned three acres at the Lake Don Pedro subdivision at or near LaGrange, California about eighty five miles from Hollister and maybe forty five miles from Yosemite National Park
33. I told her she could have that three acres to build a house on, but it wasn‘t level enough for her to take her horses and build shelters for
34. I fenced in about two and a half acres, built her a dog run, shelter for the horses, and a riding arena
35. Patti and I decided we would build a house on the three acres that I now owned at Lake Don Pedro
36. The new superintendent created five military reservations with no more than 25,000 acres, less than 40 square miles in a state of almost 160,000 square miles
37. The company also owns 2,000 acres that straddle Highway 47B in the vicinity of Tonti Road
38. It was about six or seven hundred acres of the prettiest rolling pasture-land I had seen in quite some time
39. There were about fifty acres of relatively flat land
40. As an astonishing dawn rolled round to reveal clueless acres of sea and sky, we longed to know where the hell we were
41. “Not too big, maybe fifty acres,” I explained
42. Sixty-five wildfires around Sydney destroyed more than sixty homes and burnt out two hundred and ninety-six thousand acres of state forest and farmland
43. Wildfires in Alaska burnt more than five million acres, the worst season on record
44. Wildfires burnt thirty-seven thousand acres in south-eastern Washington, and destroyed a hundred houses north-west of Los Angeles
45. Wildfires continued to scorch more than twenty-four thousand acres, destroying thirteen buildings and burning forty vehicles
46. Overall, in Texas, four hundred homes were destroyed, and three point seven million acres burnt
47. Bloggers highlighting habitat ruination affecting the survival of orang-utan populations in Borneo and Sumatra, state that millions of acres of rain forest habitat are cut down each year to make way for palm oil plantations
48. acres of arable land fallow or scorched
49. forests which led to burning half a million acres of Arizona forests
50. Forest Service and in 1995 the fires roared over that forest as well as 90,000 more acres