Sentence examples for modest parcels from inspiring English sources

Once modest parcels granted by the Royal Court for princely palaces, they have mushroomed into a multibillion-dollar real estate industry that generates most of the royal wealth.

"At the top of the pyramid you have wine that can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars per bottle, but then you have the same winemakers who have more modest parcels of land at the village level or on the generic Bourgogne level that are made with the same attention to detail that can be extraordinary value".

By chance, Boycott and her husband, Charlie, become aware of a farm for rent, a modest parcel of land called the Dairy House.

They are trying to stop Frantisek Kinsky from reclaiming family property seized by the Czechoslovak state at the end of the second world war, when millions of Germans, Austrians and Hungarians were dispossessed and expelled under the "Benes decrees".In this provincial courtroom a modest parcel of forest is at stake.

Velasquez owned a modest parcel of land of perhaps half an acre next door to his own home.

She lived in a modest single-storey thatched home, known as a "banda" in Swahili, and constructed in a traditional African village style with no windows or internal doors, on a small parcel of land on the beach.

What a very small parcel it was!

More modest houses on large parcels, particularly many of the nondescript ranch houses from the 1950's and 60's, are being razed and replaced by grander houses with likewise grander price tags.

Back then, the community mostly consisted of modest homes on large parcels of land.

For more than 70 of those years, its home has been the modest clubhouse on the parcel it owns on 34th Avenue, a half-block from Citi Field.

With further modest growth coming from EU parcels (via GLS, 16% of sales) we expect group parcel growth to more than offset continued letter volume declines.