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Sentence Examples To reduce or eliminate this problem, use no more than 1.6 pounds active per acre of atrazine or simazine the year before planting soybeans. Recently completely renovated, the house is situated on a half acre site with side entrance. This fine property is situated on a 0.5 acre site of private mature gardens. The buyer will probably be someone looking to upsize their home because this is on nearly an acre of a site. They've seen variability in corn yields of up to 50 bushels per acre across a single irrigated field. Standing on one acre of lawned gardens, this three-bedroom bungalow offers modern split-level accommodation. In years with a warm early spring, the experiments have yielded 90 to 100 bushels per acre for soybeans. Vos has been experimenting with different seeding rates per acre for field peas as well as trying out different varieties of canola. For that purpose, it is necessary to calculate the capital cost of irrigating an acre or hectare of land under a particular crop. Each field should be divided into sections and one acre should be sampled within each section by taking 15-20 subsamples in a zigzag pattern. Immigrants could buy 25 acre parcels at very liberal mortgage rates and various subsidies were also available. The remainder of the course coils through the 130 acre infield putting a premium on handling and braking. I have a house on a quarter acre in a south Dublin suburb with enough room to build a duplicate of the existing house in the side garden. They viewed the two acre walled garden which has been restored to its original 19th century design from old photographs. Certifying the Gordon Cosen's Forest, a five-million acre public land, is a remarkable accomplishment, but it is just the beginning. It is located on just over an acre of land with a two-tiered service building and office block. The ponds are three to four feet deep and range in area from an acre to more than ten acres. The house is surrounded by an acre of lush green lawns with mature shrubs sprinkled throughout. Does it pay to treat every acre with an insecticide when only a few acres will be affected? Then it was just a farmhouse with less than an acre but he has since built it up into a holding of about 100 acres. Show More Sentences The house is on about an acre of grounds which have trees, flowering shrubs and a base for a hard tennis court. Look out of your car window a few years from now and all you'll see is acre upon acre of golden oilseed rape. This attractive building is set on three quarters of an acre on the outskirts of the village. We want to fence off a quarter of an acre of our land to create a building plot with access from our existing driveway. The house comes with three quarters of an acre and is situated near a river. Ten gophers on a single acre of land can move up to five tons of earth within one year. Also in some cases it seemed a two acre area would be required of those building the house. I grew up in Somerset, on a seven acre smallholding where my parents and sister still live. Yields of up to four tonnes an acre had been forecast before weather broke. But if you're a small farmer with one acre at one spot, you have no rabi crop at all every second year. For instance, in one season a farmer may apply five bags of chemical fertilisers on one acre of land and reaps 30 bags of grain. Today there are landscaped terraced gardens extending to an acre with flowering shrubs and trees. Yields of corn have risen from about 30 bushels per acre in 1940 to around 120 bushels per acre today. The property is situated on approximately three quarters of an acre of mature garden. Despite the muddy dirt road leading to the seventy acre lake, the few girls who were there were in little black dresses and sharp heels. The house, the entrance lodge and garden of just over an acre comprise lot one. The branches of the nearest trees practically touch our home, ever beckoning us into the hundred acre wood. They believe that 20 tonnes of dust per acre is enough to make land fertile for a decade. Terraces and higher blocks of residential with offices on lower storeys, with 10 acre park on podium. It had 432 allotments of a quarter acre each and 88 suburban blocks ranging in size from five to eleven acres. Show More Sentences The 16.5 acre site boasts natural woodland, a Japanese garden, sunken lawns, topiary and an orangery. Under the previously allowed four pound per acre rate of chlorpyrifos, the ADI was right at the one microgram per kilogram a day limit. It's dry and dusty with red dirt and big skies and broad acre paddocks of wheat and sheep. Applications of biosolids to agricultural land will rarely exceed 5 dry tons per acre per year. Corn harvested for silage yields one-third more feed nutrients per acre than corn harvested for grain. He presented her with a deed in her name for a 1,000 acre ranch and with the blingiest necklace I have ever seen. Stands of 50,000 or more board feet per acre are considered high volume and rare, comprising less than 2 percent of the Tongass timberlands. About a quarter of the farms were classified as small, varying round an average of just under one acre and a half. An excavation was carried out of around one-third of an acre of bogland at Bragan. For strawberries, brambles, blueberries, and grapes, 200 gallons per acre is the standard dilute volume. Potatoes had the advantage of producing three times as much food per acre as grain. In British Columbia, ancient forests are vanishing at the rate of one acre every 70 seconds, or 418,000 acres per year. Apply with 2 to 4 quarts per acre of liquid nitrogen fertilizer when velvetleaf is a target weed. Thirteen vernal pools, ranging in size from a quarter acre to nearly twenty-five acres, develop mostly on the tops of mesas. Plants in fields with seeding rates above 150,000 seeds per acre in good environments may be tall, spindly, and more susceptible to lodging. The soybean is a legume and can fix adequate atmospheric nitrogen to produce a yield of 70 to 80 bushels per acre if well nodulated. Lamb calculated dollars per acre for his first experimental plots last year, most of it labor costs for weed control. A maximum standing crop of 558.7 pounds per acre was measured at one of the more productive reaches. In 1966 the Hopi tribal council signed a lease with Peabody Coal Company to strip mine a 25,000 acre area in the Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area. A large fire was constantly kept burning in front, and for an acre or so around the ground was covered with drying hides. Show More Sentences The White Oak plantation in the north of the state is a 7,500 acre area of conservation where rhinos, cheetahs, zebras and giraffes roam freely. During 4 years of tests at 3 Palouse sites, Sierra's average yearly seed yield was 1,348 pounds per acre versus 1,274 for Dwelley. On New Year's Eve, the couple could take a walk around the grounds of the 300 acre estate or join in the clay pigeon shooting challenge. One acre of pasture can provide adequate grazing but requires more management and equipment. They also grow an acre of green beans, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, squash and cucumbers. The development will eventually have more than 500 apartments, penthouses, duplexes and three-storey family homes on the 38 acre coastal site. In 1914, 1 acre was taken for a pumice quarry, and subsequently 3 roods, or 27.8 perches, were returned to the descendants of those owners. It is described in Griffith's Valuation of 1857 as containing one acre two roods and five perches and owned by him. For the whole city of Chicago, the ratio was 507 people to each acre of public and private parks and playgrounds. By design, the payments will vary inversely with realized gross revenue per acre. Each coterie defends a home territory of about one acre from surrounding coteries. Woodview, a four-bedroom detached house, is situated on a third of an acre and covers an area of 2,150 square feet. The two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves. True to Chris's intentions, the two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves, daffodils and dandelions. The result was a healthier diet for the cows and a better net return per acre of cropland. Calculations of this type, applied to different farms, will frequently show needs of 2 to 6 tons of manure per acre of cropland. Instead of a healthy quota of 40 trees an acre, the region is crowded with as many as 568 an acre. Nearly every acre of the countryside has been grazed by cattle, tilled for crops, or cut for fuelwood. At a cursory glance 150,000 euro seems an awful lot of money to pay for one acre. Prairie potholes are natural depressions that can be a fifth of an acre up to 500 acres in size. Show More Sentences They believe that everyone wants to live in single-family detached houses in the middle of an acre of land. Huge oaks, cedars and wisteria grace the 1,300 acre stretch of rambling greens known as Deer Park. Make the standard conversion by multiplying the amount of pesticide per 100 gallons times the standard dilute volume of water per acre. It means the amount of water needed to cover an acre of ground to the depth of one foot. The mansion that is a paradigm example of Georgian architecture is bordered by archaic gardens that cover more than an acre of land. The house, which dates from the 1960s, sits on about an acre of well maintained gardens which include large lawns, an orchard and a glasshouse. One pound of seed spaced at the above recommendation should take up one-tenth of an acre. A trip by jaunting car is an ideal way to experience some of the 25,000 acre Killarney National Park. A family on a one hundred acre farm should be able to earn a reasonable family income from activities on the property. The hardwoods are spaced eight feet apart in rows ten feet wide, a spacing that accommodates 540 trees per acre. His home, an ultra modern mansion on three quarters of an acre of riverfront land in Dalkeith, was sold recently. Almost every acre of corn in Texas is treated with soil insecticides at planting to limit root damage caused by rootworm. It seems there's not an acre of land that doesn't have a story and a hefty dose of mana, or spiritual power. Seedling counts show 11,000 to 22,000 white birch seedlings per acre where the ground was scarified and no seedlings where it was not. Nearby Redcliff dates from 1832 but its four acre garden is still a work in progress following terracing of the hillside. The Barbudan selects a portion of land, ranging from an acre to three acres, and encloses it against animals. In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre. Bob's family farmed the 36 acre island, growing onions, turnips, barley and potatoes. Usda reports per acre costs of production for only certain crops, including barley, corn, upland cotton, oats, rice, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat. Cabbages, wild garlic, spinach and a range of colourful flowers are among the items produced by residents at the one-and-a-half acre site on Red Lane. Show More Sentences Here lie the remains of Rudolph's winter camp, a collection of small living stations scattered over an acre of terrain, camouflaged by patches of hemlock and laurel. Our farm is a composed of rolling hills with 2 ponds, a small stream and a 25 acre wood lot. With one hive, bees should pollinate enough flowers to produce 700-800 lbs of blueberries per acre. The plans also show four commercial outparcels of about an acre each. Four outparcels of about an acre each round out the project. The provincial oat yield is pegged at 65 bushels per acre, which is six or seven bushels above average. When stalks and roots from an average corn crop are left to deteriorate in a no-till system, more than 1000 pounds of carbon per acre can be retained in the soil as humus. Peas are averaging about 38 bushels per acre with about seven per cent of that crop in the bin. It must be optimized to produce yields in excess of 100 bushels per acre. The amount of nitrogen in legume cover crops varies among species, but legumes generally contribute 50 to 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre. The 800 acre hill farm has Galloway beef and Rochdale lamb, and the relationship between farm and business is strong. The money funded the creation of the 40 acre park near Bangalore, where the bears run free, hide in caves, and learn to behave as normal jungle animals once again. First is that the glyphosate product should be applied at the rate of one litre per acre. Instead of the typical one-and-a-half or two bales to the acre, some hay fields are now yielding only half a bale to the acre. Looking for a rec center with an acre of cardio and weight machines like the ones used at the Beijing Olympics? On around one third of an acre, this gracious residence with double bay windows has not been occupied for a number of years and is in need of total refurbishment. It may be recalled that the 4.5 acre land of the estate in the heart of Bangalore is a property dedicated by the family of the late dewan of the kingdom's ruler. One afternoon, I was coming home from school and Papa and Rufus Payne were trying to drive a sow down to the ten acre field and she sulled and laid down beside the road. This charming three bedroom cottage, built circa 1900, is in fine condition throughout and is situated on a one acre site and surrounded by beautiful scenery. She added that more investigations had been carried out below a blemish to the northern flank of the five-and-a-half acre mound but no problems were found. Show More Sentences The plantswoman's garden was created over the past 12 years, and it consisted of roses, a pond, a rockery and herbaceous borders, all in less than one acre. A one acre garden to the rear is bordered by mature shrubs and trees while the front garden is quite private and screened from the road by tall hedging. Many bog owners and people with turbary rights cut turf on an acre plot. As I write, I cannot say with authority when the bulldozers will move onto the forty three acre site, but expect it to be sooner rather than later. Since the pampered little wretches have an acre of grass apiece and a daily bucket of sheep muesli, we took a dim view of their varying their diet with bark. Of course they will give me money, but having an acre of trees these days is no joke. Incredibly, however, many on the council still refused to admit that the whole problem was the hundred acre coal fire merrily burning beneath the town. This small, rectangular, 1.4 acre parcel of land is perched on a hill, in the lee of which shelters a hamlet and its few houses. In the period prior to the bush fire danger period, landholders are still responsible for any burning activity including pile burns or broad acre burns. The 1.2 acre former Tedcastles' coal-yard is to be transformed into an ultramodern 7,300 square metres of high-technology office space and apartments. A designated 2.5 acre site in the 60 acre barrack complex will be used and it is intended that family groups, in the main, will be housed in these 50 mobile homes. Even if you are applying the intended rate per acre, odds are some of the knives on your applicator are putting out a lot more nitrogen than others. When the Chees moved to Lismore in 1988 they brought with them two semi-trailers full of bonsai trees, which they have planted out in quarter acre block on their property. Built a year ago, this five-bedroom house is unusually spacious and is situated on a three quarter acre site with unobscured views of countryside on three sides. She grows over twenty herbs, fruits and vegetables on her two and half acre family plot. As fate would have it, a one-half acre site next to the Earl Haig Society project became available. Each villa will be set on an acre of land with a private pool and hot tub. Generally, walk-behind mowers are used for property that is less than an acre. But from every side of the peninsula, its crown jewel, the mountainous 900,000 acre Olympic National Park is visible, veined with snow and glacier ice, even in July. Some of them are already quietly exhuming bodies by the acre in order to sell off the land for other uses. Show More Sentences A five-bed bungalow is currently being built on a half acre plot. I blame it on the spoils of a childhood surrounded by Gravenstein apple trees, Santa Rosa plums, and tangles of blackberries growing wild on my parents' acre of land. The 7.8 acre site on the Kinsale Road in Cork is close to the Kinsale roundabout giving access to the South Ring Road, Lee Tunnel and main arterial routes. The tombolo is an exceptionally diverse and complex association of rare landforms and natural communities on the southeast end of 10,000 acre Stockton Island. The three acre campsite was completely empty, aside from the one family. This impressive house built of exposed stone at the beginning of the 19th century is in an ideal situation, dominating a vast 11 acre stretch. There are approximately 20,000 to 43,500 of these PVC pipes planted per acre on tidelands. Covering every acre of agricultural set-aside with short coppice willow and burning every scrap of carbon neutral forestry residue might scrape up another four per cent! Farmers with land holding up to five acre in canalfed and ten acres in rainfed areas are eligible to apply. He has been in the tree care business for many years and is the owner of the For Trees Co. a Didsbury, Alta. located arboricultural company and 30 acre tree farm. We have already chosen our location on our 81 acre Elora farm out next to the Sabine river. I don't deny that there have been abuses, notably when the number of animals per acre on livestock farms exceeded the physical capacity of the farm to recycle slurry. In addition to its own 100 acres, Boréal has recently been granted a 20-year contract to manage and protect an additional 200 acre terrain adjoining their lands. Sparta Cemetery, or the Presbyterian Burying Ground at Sparta, is a 2 acre burying ground dating to 1764, making it the oldest cemetery in Westchester County. To supply the corn for this, an acre of wheat was cut last week and stacked in stooks to dry. Mowing a yard that is one-third of an acre with a NaturCut Push Reel Mower is equivalent to walking approximately two miles. The amount of work is measured by the cost per acre. Nature of contamination: This 55 acre parcel has been subjected to unauthorized deposit and dispersal of contaminants, including waste ore concentrates and waste acid rock drainage containing heavy metals and sulphur. This forensic piling on of evidence by the acre unnecessarily lengthens trials, defuses their focus and diverts the attention of the trier of fact. Or perhaps they ride their ATVs on an ungroomed acre of land between two pieces of private property. Show More Sentences The team has undertaken various activities, including clearing half an acre of scrub to create further cultivable space. Using a figure of 10,000 board-feet per acre standing, Dean estimates MRC's inventory at two billion board-feet or more. An estate of almost 86 acres: 13.6 acres of parklands with water-filled moats around the buildings, 6.7 acres of woods, a small 1.25 acre lake and 64.2 acres of grasslands and tenanted farmlands. Since the acre is no longer in use for land registration purposes in the United Kingdom and Ireland, there is no longer any need to provide for an exemption in that respect. The land which is not farmed includes a cattail marsh, the 25 acre woodlot including a 7 acre tamarack and cedar swamp and about 18 acres of sugar maple, ash, beech, cherry that is higher and dryer. In a few cases, more than 70 bushels per acre have been reported. Progressive growers are obtaining wheat yield upto 80 maunds per acre whereas average yield is 30 maund per acre the Minister added. Brian Rutterford aged 54, from Lakenheath, Suffolk, is growing elephant grass on ten per cent of his 2,000 acre farm. O'Brien Family Farms dedicates half an acre to its hydroponically grown, u-pick fruits and vegetables, including strawberries. The blooming tubers have thriven in proportion, and at reaping time the acre of ground thus cropped will prove the most productive ever cultivated on the glebe of Cummertrees. Typically walk-behinds are best if you have less than one-half acre. It's still the most profitable of all crops and we feel justified in moving here, selling more of those crops that are making good money and for now and holding on to those crops with fewer dollars per acre. Wilton Engineering's 50 acre fabrication and maintenance site is in Port Clarence. Surprising, especially since right now lentils remains the hands down winner when measured in terms of gross return per acre against all other cropping options out there. The 30 acre estate is home to magnificent gardens, vegetable patches and orchards, with splendid views across the Southern Alps. The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field. Under minimum tillage, the brown and dark brown soil zones are assumed to sequester 0.2 tonnes per acre of carbon a year, while black and grey-wooded soils are at 0.4 tonnes per acre. Now they have been resettled on tiny plots, often less than a quarter of an acre, only enough room for a small vegetable garden, with no other source of livelihood. The Grade I Elizabethan manor house is hidden in a 3,500 acre wooded estate, close to the chocolate-box village of Gittisham. The 56 acre fortress was designed for 1000 troops, and gun emplacements were built facing seawards on three sides. Show More Sentences One acre harvested in this way can produce three to five kilograms of raw opium. The United Kingdom, United States, Burma, and to some extent Canada use the acre instead. Most of the produce supplied to the restaurant is grown on Rogan's nearby twelve acre farm. An acre laid out as a thornery would form an interesting episode to the general scenery of a pleasure-ground. Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy. It costs a lot less to put in an acre of soybeans than an acre of corn. For example, in those areas where there was very little summer rainfall, yields have ranged from 30 to 40 bushels per acre, a little more than half of the top yields. In 2003, Lehmann and his colleagues treated farm fields in Colombia with biochar and found they yielded up to 140 percent more corn per acre compared to biochar-free fields. An acre of land given to the government for housing would earn the right to develop one acre of built-up area, an instrument that could then be traded in the open market. Lawn tractors are perfect for properties over an acre. The first woman honoured grows 70 varieties on her one acre of land. The average urban acre in Canada, and this is important to my friends from rural Canada, receives more pesticides than the average agricultural acre. Secluded but not remote in the center of the 40 acre property, it can easily welcome up to 20 people in its fully air conditioned 6,500 square feet. The fruit comes from 16 trees on the Fox's five-eighths acre home lot. The South'rons front they fought all face to face, Who to their ignominy and disgrace, Did neither stand nor fairly foot the score, But did retire five acre breadth and more. Rootstocks are integral components of a high-density orchard because they control final canopy size, and a smaller tree canopy means more trees per acre. On the 14th Richard agreed to the demands, which included a general pardon, abolition of villeinage, liberty to trade and the fixing of land rent at four pence per acre. As well as numerous parks, open spaces, and extensive riverside areas, puzzlingly the report also overlooked the 1000 acre Town Moor at the heart of the city. On his one acre of property he leads a permaculturist lifestyle. Farmers should put Phosphorous and Potash in these lines at the rate of 120 kilogram Nitrogen, 69 kg Phosphorous, and 50kg Potash per acre in case of weaker land. Show More Sentences Formerly used in real estate transactions in the American Southwest, it was the number of pregnant cows an acre of a given plot of land could support. The 700 acre Grange Farm at Billingham was chosen for the site. The acre is also commonly used to measure land areas, where. It takes one manual laborer 2 hours to harvest one acre of asparagus. The largest park in the city is the 549 acre Green Hill Park. The high-maintenance Fibermax cotton was fertilized for a four bale per acre yield goal and received all the irrigation necessary to meet its daily evaporative demand. Grass hay cut too early will not cure as easily due to high moisture content, plus it will produce a lower yield per acre than longer, more mature grass. Plano will operate over 50 Marmaton locations based on 160 acre spacing in the above average reservoir quality area defined by the proprietary mapping technique. Heading the English advance guard, he arrived at the siege of Acre, deputized for Patriarch Heraclius, but died soon after. It is plain from the maps that in this intervening period the road alignment was altered in respect of the Castle Acre spur and the Pink Road. On Tuesday evening, they will talk through a business plan they have prepared with Long Acre, a corporate-finance boutique. Winnie the Pooh movie, the heffalump, Winnie the Pooh and the 100 Acre Wood characters. Once he arrived at Acre, he showed himself to be fair-minded, generous and impartial in his dealings with the barons. Fifteen jobs were lost at that time and when Acre finally closed this week it was down to just five staff. Its leader, Richard Plantagenet, reoccupied Acre, executing prisoners and slaughtering its inhabitants. Ingram first reached out to MaLeisa and Todd Hughes, the owners of Green Acre Dog Boarders, about two months ago. I report here an observation of attempted predation by a tayra in the western Amazon, in Acre, Brazil. Golden Acre Park opened in 1932 as a large amusement park with rides, boating lake and miniature railway. In another audacious move he sent envoys to the Crusader leaders in Acre asking for safe passage and the right to purchase supplies. In the United States, the state of Texas led in total production as of 2004, while the state of California had the highest yield per acre. Show More Sentences Acquiring the territory would double the size of the United States, at a sum of less than 3 cents per acre. One woman said her dog came back from Green Acre with unexplained chemical burns. By the time Acre surrendered on 12 July, Philip was severely ill with dysentery, which reduced his zeal. Green Acre, under the auspices of San Diego chef icon Brian Malarky, is known for its fresh, farm-to-table cuisine. There is also athletics coaching at Edmondscote athletics track, Leamington,and play and multisports activities at Acre Close, Whitnash. The new civic centre, which would be built in Acre Close, Whitnash, would be about 4,000 square feet and act as a one-stop shop for residents. In April 1191 Richard left Messina for Acre, but a storm dispersed his large fleet. He failed to reduce the fortress of Acre, so he marched his army back to Egypt in May. After the fall of Acre, Edward's international role changed from that of a diplomat to an antagonist. Moreover, Richard had personally offended Leopold by casting down his standard from the walls of Acre. Richard feared his forces being bottled up in Acre as he believed his campaign could not advance with the prisoners in train. Next in order of troublesomeness is the corn-buttercup or stave acre. Richard and his forces aided in the capture of Acre, despite the king's serious illness. Covent Garden has 13 theatres, and over 60 pubs and bars, with most south of Long Acre, around the main shopping area of the old market. Covent Garden is served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station on the corner of Long Acre and James Street. In the War of Saint Sabas, Venice drove the Genoese from Acre to Tyre where they continued to trade happily with Baibars' Egypt. On 17 March, he laid siege to Acre, and defeated an Ottoman effort to relieve the city at the Battle of Mount Tabor on 17 April. However, his repeated assaults on Acre were driven back by Ottoman and British forces under the command of Jezzar Pasha and Sir Sidney Smith. Ties with Richard were further strained after the latter acted in a haughty manner after Acre fell to the crusaders. More importantly, the siege of Acre resulted in the death of Philip, Count of Flanders, who held the county of Vermandois proper. Show More Sentences They sailed to Acre, and then rode on camels to the Persian port of Hormuz. It also lost the state of Acre, in the Acre War, important because this region was known for its production of rubber. The Meanwood Valley Trail leads from Woodhouse Moor along Meanwood Beck to Golden Acre Park. This last also inspired Knights of Saint Thomas, incorporated in 1191 at Acre, and which was to be modelled on the Teutonic Knights. However, over time the area regarded as part of Covent Garden has expanded northwards past Long Acre to High Holborn. Shelton Street, running parallel to the north of Long Acre, marks the London borough boundary between Camden and Westminster. Long Acre has clothes shops and boutiques, and Neal Street is noted for its numerous shoe shops. Eventually Conrad of Montferrat concluded the surrender negotiations with Saladin's forces inside Acre and raised the banners of the kings in the city. Richard's men tore the flag down and threw it in the moat of Acre. Napoleon attacked north along the Mediterranean coast, but Turkish defenders supported by Captain Sir Sidney Smith defeated his army at the Siege of Acre. On Sunday, the Grand Letdown will hit the stage at John Henry's, along with Slipping Glimpser, Stark Raving Naked, the Hundred Acre Wood and Mosaic. Coke's estates, such as Stoke Poges and Castle Acre Priory, including Holkham Hall, Castle Acre Castle, and Minster Lovell Hall passed to his son Henry Coke. Donations to the Adopt an Acre program represent the best chance of hope for survival of this and other rare and endangered species, including clouded leopards and sun bears. The world map, as well as a map of the Holy Land and plan of Acre and Jerusalem were made for inclusion in Marino Sanuto's Liber secretorum fidelium cruces. The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. He then marched to Acre, which was already under siege by a lesser contingent of crusaders, and he started to construct siege equipment before Richard arrived on 8 June. In Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Acre states in Brazil, however, Yanawama natives produce urucum and andiroba seeds for Aveda, the natural cosmetics company. Examples from Classical Literature The Abbot of Gloucester had ninety acres of land in Walmore, at eight pence an acre rent, for cultivation, but not for commonage. On hard lands it is well to sow two or three quarts per acre of crimson clover seed. The uruguayan boasts that every acre of ground in his country is productive. It stands in about an acre of ground, ornamented with flowers, shrubs, and an avenue of kukui and koa-trees. But that would still be one helluva lot better than letting millions of acre feet just seep out to sea. Crops of 30 and sometimes 40 bushels have been obtained to the acre with guano. There was about an acre of clear ground, covered with grass and flowers, among which helianthus and blue lupines were conspicuous. Altogether, it has an exceedingly flourishing look, not an acre of irrigable land left unplanted. Hence it follows that the quarter of an acre is a rood or yard or virga or virgata of land. A rupini produces about ten patis, or an acre about three bushels and a half. I think every acre of land suitable for garden or field cultivation is taken. We measure a farm by comparing its area with the standard unit of surface measure, the acre, square rod, or square yard. Pools in which rotenone was used had areas of as much as one-half acre and depths in excess of six feet. I think I put on one-half acre of the everbearing strawberries twenty-five loads of fertilizer. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within an acre of land. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half an acre of land. About half an acre in extent, it resembled the rosery at Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate. Acre after acre of the soil wherein lives the honey ant is dug over for this toothsome mite. Hull was in possession, and refused to yield an acre of the lands he had so nefariously acquired. Based on my rough math, when Adams wrote his book in 1979, three earthlings could be fed by one acre of this farmland. Show More Sentences Howbeit you must have many a head of horned beasts, and many an acre of broad land, to spend from your purse so freely. Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. The measurement of the arpent varied from an acre to an acre and a half. It stood in the midst of an acre of land, waste except a little kitchen garden at the rear. When seeded alone, 20 to 30 pounds of seed per acre should be used. When seeded alone for hay, 30 pounds of seed per acre may be used. The 7 acre site is located on Third Street, at the Hughes Avenue alignment in Old Town Clovis. Sunburst will also sell empty lots ranging from one-third of an acre to an acre. Nubble Island is an acre and a half and about a kilometre from the mainland, in a secluded bay. In a very short time land that could have been bought for 3 or 4 dollars an acre was unprocurable at five times those figures. It consisted of a croft of two acres and one acre in the common field. The top was flat as a billiard table, about a quarter of an acre in size, and was almost clean of snow. He was searching every square yard of that acre of uneven rock. Of the mangel-wurzel he has not less than twenty tons to the acre. The company behind the 700 acre Wynyard Park estate near Stockton is putting forward plans to develop the South West Ironmasters site as an Advanced Manufacturing Park. Not wishing to leave the stream the two waded along its bed to a spot where the gorge widened between perpendicular bluffs to a wooded acre of level land. We pay only twenty dollars an acre then, and I been offered a hundred. Brockbushes has evolved over the past 25 years from an acre of soft fruit with a tiny farm shop which was open for eight weeks in the year, to a thriving rural retail centre. The area, roughly an acre in size, includes a water fountain with spigots for both humans and dogs, a picnic table and a few well-placed trash cans with pooper scoopers. What makes Fore-dale Steading, in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, special is that it has planning permission for two house and sits in a fifth of an acre of land. Show More Sentences Tableland there is none except little patches of less than an acre. Lying at a distance of six miles from Mount Tabor, it commanded the interjacent plain and the sea-coast to Acre. This was forty rods, or poles, and four of these furrows made up the acre. Find more words! 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