Sentence examples for a quarter section from inspiring English sources

Payload volume: A quarter section of the 5.2-meter Falcon 9 fairing at SpaceX's Hawthorne, CA, headquarters.

The worm resembles a screw, and the gear resembles a quarter section of a long nut that has been bent around a cylinder.

They got caught up in the land leveraging of a few years ago, buying a quarter section, or 160 acres, of prime farmland for nearly $2,000 an acre in 1981.

The tumours were removed and half of each was placed in 4% neutral buffered formalin (NBF, Sigma, UK) and a quarter section was snap-frozen in QIAzol (Qiagen, Crawley, UK) for RNA extraction.

It is not uncommon for a quarter section (a 160-acre piece of land) to have over ten pastures and many more paddocks to rotate your livestock in, for example.

During my teenage years — most of which I spent living and working on a quarter-section, corn-and-soybeans, last-of-a-dying-breed Iowa family farm — I began to notice that my particular reality was not often reflected on screen.

The town grew up around a station named after one of the contractors who built the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which drew European settlers to the Canadian prairies because, under the Dominion Lands Act, a quarter-section of land (160 acres) could be possessed without payment if a homesteader cultivated a quarter of it within three years.

The longitudinal CFRP sheets on the north and south faces were anchored with an anchorage system consisting of a steel plate welded to a quarter-section of steel pipe reinforced with stiffeners and fastened to the concrete with threaded steel anchor rods that were embedded using a chemical adhesive.

In 1906, William claimed a quarter-section, 160 acre of undeveloped land near Borden, Saskatchewan.

Under the provisions of the Act, settlers could obtain title to a quarter-section (160 acres, or 160 acre) of land for a nominal fee, provided that they built a house, made certain improvements, farmed the land, and occupied the site for at least five years.

Historically, community residents could pay taxes or supply a couple days per quarter section labour constructing roads, bridges, and fireguards instead of paying taxes).