The word "acres" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a unit of measure, indicating a large, measured amount of land, such as in the sentence "The farmer owned 10 acres of land."
The annexation of the 950 acres of the West Bank just a few months ago has outraged me more than anything else in my political life.
The after-dark madness that congregates around the fantasy areas of Shangri-la and Arcadia will be given more room than ever this year, with the festival ploughing in an extra £200,000 into the area, increasing its size by 10 acres.
Emily Dickinson's winter is charged with wildness – the snow buries the "stump and stack and stem" and creates "Acres of seams where harvests were".
The most affluent family in Britain, headed by Major General Gerald Grosvenor, owns 77 hectares (190 acres) of prime real estate in Belgravia, London, and has been a beneficiary of the foreign money flooding in to the capital's soaring property market in recent years.
"Cider is a quintessentially British drink," she says and about half her 100 acres of orchards grow the unique English bitter-sweet cider apple.
There have been acres of print devoted to the strike, some of it notable, such as Seumas Milne's The Enemy Within.
3 nights in the Lake District: from £420pp Nestled in the heart of the Lake District and set in 22 acres of its own country gardens, Gilpin Lodge makes an ideal bank holiday getaway.
The Land Registry shows the premises on Chart Hill Road are owned by John Robert Fowler, who bought the main property - a mock Tudor manor called The Oast House, in October 1991, a number of nearby cottages, outbuildings and several acres of land.
There is much to see in what amounts to some 20 acres of cultivated land.
But a verdant sprawl of 54 acres on the hill's crest is not available for money of any heft or colour.
Their plea is that there is space enough and more in these 54 idyllic acres to enable different paths to a Zoroastrian Paradise.
