Sentence examples for block of land from inspiring English sources

Owning your own home – preferably a detached house on a quarter-acre block of land – used to be the Great Australian Dream, accessible to more or less everyone.

The show's central metaphor is the reservation, "the rez," a block of land granted by treaty or simply assigned by the government to indigenous people.

Sag Harbor was close, there was a block of land available in the thirties and forties for them to get a foothold.

Last year, some friends moved into the new three-bedroom home they had built on semi-rural block of land in northern NSW.

Under the March agreement, Ceska Pojistovna agreed to fortify the block of land containing the graves with concrete, incorporate it into its office building and build an atrium with a memorial plaque above it.

There's a little patch of fence in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley that serves no purpose beyond the promotion of music – a shabby piece of chickenwire fronting a vacant block of land.

By the time of Walter's death, he held a block of lands in Herefordshire along the border with Wales.

Some smallish Gottlieb parcels would be precious to builders who are trying to assemble large blocks of land for development.

The church owned three city blocks of land, but needed additional parcels and major capital to build a new church.

In geologic terms, Asia comprises several very ancient continental platforms and other blocks of land that merged over the eons.

In the last year, Google, Yahoo and Apple have together invested more than $400 million in large blocks of land or buildings where they hope to erect future campuses.