Sentence examples for patch of vacant from inspiring English sources

This week, the Appraisal takes a boat ride to Rat Island, a privately owned patch of vacant land that will be auctioned on Sunday.

At a time when the city has few lots to build housing for low- and moderate-income tenants, the five undeveloped parcels are an incongruous sight, especially since officials and advocates considered them the biggest patch of vacant city land in Manhattan.

WHEN a rare patch of vacant land appears in Fairfield County's upscale towns or a few parcels seem ripe for cobbling together, usually by knocking down a building or two, it is likely that a new condominium project will soon rise, with units starting at $1 million and selling like ice cream in August.

The landscape scale described habitats within a 1-km radius of occupied patches and an equivalent sample of vacant patches.

Corridors can only be effective if they significantly contribute to the species sustaining processes of gene flow, resource access or the colonisation of vacant patches.

Dispersal is the movement of individuals from a source, and is a key to genetic mixing and colonization of vacant patches.

As colonization of vacant patches near a species' range limits will often depend on rare events of diaspore arrival through long-distance dispersal [e.g. [ 2]], mate limitation is likely high [ 10] and colonization success may strongly depend on self-fertilization.

Before 2001, it was a vacant patch of hillside that overlooked the stately neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan.

He reaches for a forehand volley, listing on one leg and sees the ball drop blissfully on a vacant patch of grass.

Empty lots near strip malls are scheduled for drilling, and a vacant patch of grass near graduate-student housing on the city's east side bears this sign: "Future Drilling Site".

And the stadium's location, in a formerly forlorn backwater of warehouses and factories, had an immediate gentrifying effect even before the foundation for the park was laid, driving up both commercial and residential rents and marking every vacant patch of land for development.