Sentence examples for contiguous acres from inspiring English sources

By purchase and condemnation, the county has assembled a total of almost 1,300 contiguous acres.

"We want to focus the growth while still trying to preserve as many contiguous acres of farmland to allow the farmers to continue farming".

But for every conservationist like Ted Turner -- whose holdings include Vermejo Park ranch in New Mexico, 100,000 contiguous acres that contain seven ghost towns and an entire watershed -- there are hundreds of "ranchettes," God's 35 acres.

With the purchase of Pilgrim State, Mr. Wolkoff will own more than 900 contiguous acres of land in the town of Islip, including Heartland, which is adjacent to the Pilgrim site.

The proposed new reserve spans 140,000 contiguous acres, more adequately covers known wintering sites and is intended to protect not only the individual roosting areas but the watersheds of which the forests are an integral part.

Eventually, APR hopes to accumulate 500,000 private acres to stitch to those public lands, creating a total reserve of 3.5 million contiguous acres, larger than any existing national park in the lower 48 states.

Eventually, the plots will link up to form one contiguous, 75,000-acre (303 square kilometers) parcel, an area approximately three times the size of Walt Disney World.

The campus of Michigan State University is located in East Lansing on the banks of the Red Cedar River, and comprises a contiguous area of 5200 acre, 2000 acre of which are developed.

A presidential decree passed last year expanded the reserve and connected the five sanctuaries, creating a contiguous corridor of 140,000 acres.

The Yankees took more than 20 acres of contiguous parkland — from Macombs Dam and John Mullaly Parks — to build a new stadium adjacent to the original one.

But the key to downtown's rebirth will be the big players -- Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, American Express, Lehman Brothers -- that need acres of contiguous space.