Sentence examples for hectares from inspiring English sources
The word "hectares" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an area of land that is equal to 10,000 square meters. For example: "The farmers planted vegetables on two hectares of land."
Champagne has been produced in Russia since 1896, in Abrau-Durso, on the Black Sea, in an area of 12,000 hectares.
In the nineteen-seventies, thirty-two hundred hectares of land were flood-prone; today, only forty-nine hectares are.
The head of an international organization that focusses on global food issues told Tercek recently, "You've gone from buying hectares and putting fences around it to realizing there are people in there".
Except for Twentieth Century Fox, headed by Darryl Zanuck, a shrewd and tough Gentile from Nebraska, the studios were run by Jews, who controlled many hectares of Los Angeles turf and worldwide distribution networks — an enormous power base that makes their timidity regarding Nazism a matter of psychological and cultural as well as political interest.
Planes accompanied by U.S.-funded helicopters sprayed chemicals over hundreds of thousands of hectares.
The amount of coca needed to supply the global market is relatively small: a plantation of two hundred thousand hectares, roughly half the size of Long Island, would be enough.
He has no idea how much water gushes into his rice paddies every day, but his two-hectare plot looks more like a pond than a farm.
It has nine operable crest gates, a series of enormous pumps, and a ten-thousand-hectare catchment area that is roughly one-seventh the size of the country.
Every last hectare of the outer area seemed to be in use for fish-farming, paddy-building, road-grading, ditch-digging, reed-cutting, house-rebuilding, and miscellaneous major earthmoving and concrete-pouring.
A few years ago, he offered Saddam a four-hectare plot of land in the Kalmyk capital.
Even more distressing was that women were leaving the parks with bunches of logs on their heads; inside them, men were cutting down trees by the hectare.
