noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 300-hectare/400-acre etc farm
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He bought a 300-hectare farm in Shropshire.
an acre/hectare of land
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The family owned hundreds of acres of land.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
farm
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The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds.
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Half of Neil Walker's 1,700 acre farm will disappear under water if the reservoir goes ahead.
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Dennis was 23 when the 300-acre farm-a family home for two centuries-became infected in 1967.
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David Jenkinson has a two thousand acre farm near Cirencester.
site
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The proposal covers the entire length of the 30-acre site , from County Hall to Waterloo Bridge.
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The travellers bought the two acre site six months ago.
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Six self-build plots on a 2.5 acre site are for sale in the Lincolnshire village of Corby Glen, near Grantham.
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The rest of the 230 acre site will continue to feature a wide variety of displays.
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The 7.6 acre site is currently used for grazing.
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The one acre site has become a valuable asset to local schoolchildren.
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A 20 acre site has been set aside for the Tivoli Gardens, a landscaped park with games, rides and entertainment.
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buy
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Three farms in Powys had bought extra acres to accommodate sons now on the farm.
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For example, one year Marvin Lugar allowed the children to buy one acre of wheat with their savings.
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Near San Francisco, the Shorelands Company bought 740 acres of barren clay flats.
cover
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The reed beds cost £5 million to develop and cover 12 acres of land.
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It is 102 feet deep at its deepest and covers 61 acres .
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The Zone covers 300 acres which, for the next twelve years, will offer unprecedented benefits for industrialists and investors.
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Casino covers 20 acres , offers 2, 035 rooms and cost about $ 460 million to build.
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In the woods is Halling Park, a large area covering 95 acres , and another of 28 acres called Pasted.
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This ruin is an unfinished structure about twenty feet high which covers more than an acre .
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It covered 14,000 acres , and it was invisible.
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In all, the region covers 2 million acres .
develop
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The reed beds cost £5 million to develop and cover 12 acres of land.
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McMillin Cos. of San Diego is developing the 59-acre shopping center with almost 384,000 square feet of commercial buildings.
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So I developed five acres on my own account and things just went on from there.
grow
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In early times, farmers were expected to grow a quarter acre of flax for one acre of arable land.
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Webb was then growing at least 550 acres of rape-seed, and milling twenty gallons of oil a day.
lose
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We've lost acres and acres of woodland to fast grain farming.
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If the Hinkley C power station was built he would lose about 150 acres of his best land.
own
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The Trust owned nearly a hundred acres , most of it along a low wooded ridge.
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The city still owns about 35 acres , which it intends to sell or lease as the market can absorb them.
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He owns about eight hundred acres .
plant
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I appeal to farmers and cultivators to plant every possible acre during the coming planting season.
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His family planted six acres of garlic this year and sold it for over five thousand yuan.
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In September, he planted 2, 000 acres of wheat, an enterprise that cost about $ 180, 000.
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That increased his anxiety: having planted two acres of millet, he had been looking forward to a good harvest.
sell
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No, we sold off thirty acres to a developer in nineteen seventy-three and that was a lot easier than-working.
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The group plans to sell 20 acres , or about a tenth of the developable land, this year.
set
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Norton House Hotel A Victorian mansion house set in 55 acres .
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All this was set in just about one acre .
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So the farm is well set with its 1000 acres of arable and large dairy herd.
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Dalhousie Castle Hotel 800-year-old castle set in acres of land.
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Ex-engineer Bob, 54, paid less than £5,000 for the building, set in five acres of land, in 1971.
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The Victorian/Tudor style mansion is set in eight acres of mixed agricultural land, woodland and gardens.
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The excellent three-star Nipa Lodge hotel is set in five acres of tropical gardens.
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I stepped out on to a floor of empty desks set on an acre or more of thick carpet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 2000-acre ranch
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They own 1500 acres of farmland.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After fifty years, two hundred sculpted trees occupied three sloping acres at the shore of Lake Waban in Wellesley.
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For the isolated detached property, situated in a few acres of land, is a cemetery lodge.
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It's a very large-well, there are five acres of land around the house.
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Only 865 acres were planned as open space under the old plan.
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She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent, and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck.
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Some work will begin this summer, when more than an acre of new copper roofing will be installed.
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Sometimes they stand completely isolated, surrounded by acres of fields.