Sentence examples for land for nothing from inspiring English sources
It's not land for nothing.
Polish farmers, who before accession were tearing their shirts and warning that the evil Germans and French would buy up Polish land for nothing, are emerging as the biggest beneficiaries of the EU.
We've given them that land for nothing and put our public money into it on the basis that we'll get an asset in the long run and have a unique and fantastic opportunity to host the racing here and get the windfall of people coming to Portsmouth and promoting the city".
When oil and gas prices tumbled in the late 1990s, he leased land for nothing more than the promise that he would drill it (an average acre now leases for $300 a year).
They herded Africans into reserves, selling huge tracts of land for almost nothing to white settlers and creating, along the way, the mythic "Out of Africa" era of tea parties and coffee plantations.
A developer could buy agricultural land for next to nothing and get the town (by whatever inducements) to rezone it; the land could instantly be worth a hundred times more.
"Developers won't put in something big unless the cost to construct can be justified in terms of sales prices or rentals," said Deborah Beck, executive vice president of the Real Estate Board of New York, adding, "For a building of six stories, it only pays if you get the land for next to nothing".
Jungle land can be grabbed for nothing, avoiding what is normally a huge outlay in farming.
Lifting a Burden They used to be called backpacks but, hey, America isn't the land of corporate euphemism for nothing.
On one hand, we have the evil likes of ISIS and al-Qaeda, who will not hesitate to decapitate people of other faiths, or even their own, if they disagree with their terrorist practices of killing, grabbing land and consolidating power for nothing except for their own agenda.
Dozens of youths, many with no relation to the Brothers, have landed lengthy prison terms for nothing more than standing on a street corner holding a sign.
