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
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cover
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Fifteen reserves are to be established by 2000, covering 12,000 hectares of pine forest, loch, bog and mountain.
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The area legally delimited between 1908 and 1919 as the Champagne-producing region covers 34,500 hectares .
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By 1886 La Chapelle covered 60 hectares of land, and it was lit by electric light from 1877.
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The enclosed water area now covers some 89 hectares whilst the land area is in excess of 150 hectares.
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The Inlet covers 6,500 hectares of inter-tidal land between the Gower Peninsula and Llanelli.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Some were little more than 50 hectares, although the Tyneside zone was over 450 hectares.
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That includes about 43,000 hectares of replanting and 56,000 hectares of new planting by both private foresters and Forest Enterprise.
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The average size of these plots was less than 1 hectare in the inner city, but up to 10 hectares at the edges.
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The refinery's 175 hectares will be replaced by areas of parks and green spaces.
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There are also plans to log 57,500 hectares of ancient forest, containing trees of up to 600 years old.
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They had sublet another 40 hectares because their 52 hectares of valley and mountain holdings still fall well short of their needs.
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They produced less per hectare and employed fewer people per hectare than small farms.
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This suggests that each of the 200,000 hectares developed by 1986 had required almost £200,000 of public expenditure.