For example, a certain landowner might have been said to own 32,000 acres of land, not 50 square miles of land.

Of the total land area of 2,934 km² (725,000 acres), about 24.4 is in permanent crops and another 21.2 is arable.

He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.

He was the son of Matthew Burchell, botanist and owner of Fulham Nursery, nine and a half acres of land adjacent to the gardens of Fulham Palace.

I couldn't miss it. It was 2,200 acres in size 2,200 acres in size, 2,000 years old.

In October 2004, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service also decided to designate 6,409 acres of land a critical habitat for three bat species.62

In the past 15 years, thousands of acres of land had been cleared, casualty rates had decreased, refugees had returned safely, and accident survivors had been rehabilitated.

In November 1965, Disney World was announced, with plans for theme parks, hotels, and even a model city on thousands of acres of land purchased outside of Orlando, Florida.

In a malaria infested country, mosquito eradication programs can boost production and even increase effective land usage, as acres that were almost uninhabitable become livable.

In 1787, the British negotiated the Toronto Purchase with the Mississaugas of New Credit, thereby securing more than a quarter million acres (1000 km2) of land in the Toronto area.

The designation furthered the protection of the Virgin Islands National Park created in 1956 and expanded in 1962.62 The Monument covers 12,000 acres off St. John and also increases Buck Island Reef National Monument off St. Croix from 900 acres to some 18,000 acres.

The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries. This amounts to 1.7 of the world s agricultural land.

In 2000, the Smith's Landing (Salt River) claim was settled. Nineteen thousand acres of Crown land was involved, along with payments of 3 million from the province and 28 million from Canada.

For example, these fish predate on sea urchins, and when the fish were all gone, all anyone ever saw underwater was just acres and acres of sea urchins.

Characteristics The park covers about 14 hectares (34.5 acres).

Hundreds of thousands of acres of forests are cut down to produce drugs.

Earlier media reports ranged from thousands to a high of tens of thousands of acres that not only included the land confiscated from those convicted, but also the land cleared to remove cover along the road from Balad to Baghdad for which the owners were compensated.

On 21 August, Israeli troops started handing military orders to Palestinians to confiscate some 67 square kilometres of Palestinian land in addition to 396 acres of privately owned Palestinian land in Al Azzariyeh, Abu Dis and Sawahra al Sharkiyeh, which had been confiscated to build the wall.

The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.

The court determined that, when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.

Their farms are small, perhaps one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

In 2004, the Fort McKay claim was settled, involving 20,000 acres.

The buildings of those 127 acres re allocated to NU are now part of Zewail city.

(10 miles) west of the center of Ankara, and covers an area of more than 5000 acres.

With the addition of the so called Ariel Loop , the wall would cut more than 20 kilometres deep into the Occupied Palestinian Territory, annexing Ariel and other smaller settlements to Israel, together with over 6,243 acres of Palestinian land.

Attacks have included shooting at the tyres of ambulances transporting injured Palestinians, damaging olive harvests of Palestinian farmers, poisoning their sheep and other animals, contaminating Palestinian fields in the Hebron area with poison and setting fire to acres of cultivated land.

Dune Acres is a town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States.

In September 2003, the Senate voted to rezone 120 acres of environmentally sensitive land at Great Pond on St. Croix for what was described as a 400 room hotel and an 18 hole golf course resort and conference centre.

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

Well, look how much food you can produce on 100 acres if you do this kind of ...

Sharaf visited Sudan and agreed during this visit that Sudan was to plant 100 thousand acres in the Sudan as a first stage up to one million acres, to achieve food security for both Egypt and Sudan.

The largest of the national parks in the region, it has an area of , or nearly 2 million acres.

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

By 1890 two men and two horses could cut, rake and bind 20 acres of wheat per day.

A wind farm can be integrated on farmland over thousands of acres but farmers who lease the land lose only about 1 2 per cent of their crop production and have the potential to earn from 20,000 to 30,000 in annual rent or royalties.

On the eve of his death in 1557, the Portuguese empire spanned almost 1 billion acres (about 4 million square kilometers).

At 16 lower efficiency, current output would require another 65 million acres of farmland an area more than half the size of California.

In 1994, Congress passed the Guam Excess Lands Act (Public Law 103 339) to return 3,200 acres to the people of Guam.

It is the largest forest reserve in South America, covering an area greater than 5.6 million acres (23,000 km²).

Approximately 157,800 acres lies between the barrier and the Green Line, affecting an estimated 93,200 Palestinians located in these areas.

In Texas, lots could be as small as ten acres in area, or as large as five miles by twenty miles.

And he got me five acres of land on San Francisco Bay and we got an architect and we got a general contractor and we got Herbie on the board, and our friends from HP, and our friends from Steelcase, and our friends from Cisco, and our friends from Wells Fargo and Genentech.

One cornerstone of the project was smallholder farmers, meaning peasant farm families in Africa, Latin America, and Asia working farms of around one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

And that the building itself is occupied in the lower portion, broken up by a series of courts, and it's five acres of uninterrupted, horizontal space for their administrative offices.

When work had begun on construction of the separation wall, thousands of additional acres of Palestinian lands, natural resources and water had been destroyed and thousands more Palestinians had been displaced.