Sentence examples for off tracts from inspiring English sources

Timber companies sell off tracts of logged forest for $9,000 to $12,000 an acre.

As Mr. Gates knocked off tracts, he would color them in with a highlighter.

Under Sadat, the Army became involved in building the civilian infrastructure; over the past couple of decades, it has gone into real estate, selling off tracts of land in the desert and developing holiday resorts.

In the late 1960s, private landowners were considering selling off tracts for timber development until the Sierra Club campaigned to have over 20,000 acres just south-east of Columbia declared a national monument in 1976.

A second Perl script trimmed off tracts of at least 10 consecutive A's or T's within the first 60 nucleotides from either end of the vector-trimmed sequences, plus any sequence distal to these tracts.

Mr. Costa said that plantation owners on Kauai began selling off large tracts of agricultural land in the late 1980s.

But the full proceeds will only be raised if the Greek state sells off huge tracts of land and buildings, the officials conceded.

The institute's focus on the Northern Forest comes when many financially struggling paper and pulp companies are closing aging mills in the Northeast, consolidating their holdings, and selling off vast tracts of forestland that they have owned for decades.

When the oil companies began selling off huge tracts of land, much of it was bought by ranchers, who raised cattle and horses and, in several waves of what Mr. Firestone calls "fantasy farming," fad livestock like Arabian horses and ostriches.

However, recent developments such as fencing off large tracts of grazing land for proprietary oil exploration has already constrained herd mobility, which is a key drought coping strategy and therefore the main tenet of the pastoral production system in the area.

Along with the brand name, the Godrejs possess another almost priceless asset: nearly 3,000 acres in Bombay, bought by the family during World War II, when the British auctioned off large tracts of what would become some of the world's most expensive urban real estate.