Despite its privileges and sizeable landed estates, from the late 14th century the abbey began to suffer financially and was forced to lease out its estates.
Now the pressure is increasing on one of the last sizeable holdouts — lands owned by Native Americans.
But, there is little question that, environmentally, Beijing's golf craze -- considering the sizeable amount of land taken out of production in a country short of arable land, the water and the pesticides needed to maintain the 18,100 acres, and the harmful effects of intensive turf management on the city's water supply -- makes little sense.
Some Sri Lankans worry that Chinese state-backed firms will take over sizeable tracts of land and control strategic assets; it is only a small step from there for China to be meddling in Sri Lankan affairs.
But then, turning around, we notice how on the other side of this small, slowly crumbling hill, there are still green cornfields and sizeable expanses of land: a flashback to the Iztapalapa of 30 years ago, where frogs and toads hid under rocks, and Mexican salamanders swam in the canals formed by flooded dirt roads.
The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia.
Some farmers who were able to transfer livestock from the south either did not have land sizeable enough for pasture, or were not able to build enclosures, so livestock were often unconfined.
But to see it written down in black and white confirms again what a leg-up West Ham's joint majority owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, and canny vice-chair Karren Brady (rumoured to have got a sizeable bonus for landing the deal) have received.
A FEW centuries before our millennium began, the last remaining sizeable bit of uninhabited land fit to live in received its first humans.
Observers believe his conversion to extending the concept to withdrawals from West Bank settlements beyond the controversial "security fence" - while keeping sizeable chunks of Arab land - is genuine.
