Sentence examples for plantation about from inspiring English sources
Mary, long gone, accompanied me on the guided tour of the Whitney Plantation, about 45 miles west of New Orleans.
On Tuesday, the guerrillas captured the huge Firestone Tire and Rubber Company plantation, about 30 miles east of here.
Petitioner is an illiterate farmhand who was engaged, at the time of his arrest, upon a plantation about ten miles from Livingston, Texas.
The 2,700-acre 2,700-acreforesortugar cane plantation about an hour's drive southeast oformerJuan in Humacao, consugar of several caneominium communities and two hotels.
After the helicopters came in at treetop level to an open field next to a rubber plantation about five miles southeast of Memot, the men broke into squads and cautiously began moving out to seek the enemy.
— "Vote or Die," exhorts the faded slogan on a roadway at Prairie View A&M University, where black students once marched for the right to vote here in the town where they attend school, on a former cotton plantation about 50 miles northwest of Houston.
A tobacco plantation is about as pretty as a cabbage-field.
Of these 7.5 million hectares, 2.9 million correspond to oil palm plantations, about 40%.
The Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, about 20 miles from downtown, is spectacular.
In West Bengal, one hectare of well manured and irrigated plantation can yield about 19 to 28 tonnes of leaves in five pluckings.
By 1680 in Barbados the average plantation had about 60 slaves, and in Jamaica in 1832 about 150.
