Sentence examples for acreage from inspiring English sources

MacInnes showed how under- represented this class of people was, especially in the media: "As one skips through contemporary novels or scans over acreage of fish-and-chips dailies and the very square footage of the very predictable weeklies... it is amazing - it really is - how very little one can learn about life in England here and now".

Although less than 0.1% of the global acreage of GM crops is cultivated in the EU, more than 70% of EU animal protein feed requirements are imported as GM crop products.

Also there has been an increase in farmed acreage and a 300% increase in bank lending to farmers in the past four years.

A different target for non-intensive acreage could be set each year.

The state, which now controls about 40 per cent of the sugar acreage, was determined on diversification; the gross mistake (which Cubans themselves acknowledge more fiercely than any outsider) was to pick on some of the most productive sugar fields for the changeover.

More than one-third of farmers surveyed plan to decrease acreage in 2012.

More than 80% of respondents, by acreage, experienced labour shortages of around 40% compared with normal peak-harvest employment, leading to losses in seven spring crops of $75m.

The Bear Claw is no exception; until 1977 it had twice its acreage, but a group of investors bought the ranch and paid for it by splitting the land.

In the past couple of decades these national oil companies have claimed the best acreage in most old oilfields.

This is well over double the total acreage in 2006, the year with the lowest level of cultivation.

GM crops can tackle weeds, and would allow farmers with just a knapsack sprayer to increase their acreage.