Sentence examples for stretch of farm from inspiring English sources

A farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of farm exports in our history.

"The problems of Greece are so widespread," he said, shielding his eyes from a blazing sun as he looked across the stretch of farm country that he now calls home.

The first portion of what would become RE 255 was designated on June 12 , 1945as the first stretch of Farm to Market Road 255 (FM 255).

Then Mr. Hall noted that a new freeway, the latest in several extensions crisscrossing the area, would soon be built right through this stretch of farms, bringing yet more cars and more smog.

As firefighters arrived, they found smoke already densely filling the house here in a quiet stretch of waterfront farm country in southern Delaware, 50 miles south of Dover.

In another stretch of the farm, scores of angry squatters gathered to sing and hurl insults at the government, saying politicians had failed to fulfill their promises of land and housing.

Parishioners here have especially agonized over a decision because both priests are from the St .John Valley, an isolated stretch of potato farms and paper mills where people carry centuries-old French names and salt their speech with French.

In early 2008, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei received an unusual call from a government official in a district of Shanghai, inviting him to build a studio in a stretch of grape farms on the city's edge, a project that might help Shanghai keep pace with Beijing's emergence as the cultural capital of China.

In a way, Mr. Moran's territory -- a rural stretch of dairy farms, vineyards and small towns south of Buffalo and west of Rochester -- seems as far removed as one can get from the Bush-McCain fight for the state's Republican delegates.

By Evan Osnos January 12 , 2011In early 2008, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei received an unusual call from a government official in a district of Shanghai, inviting him to build a studio in a stretch of grape farms on the city's edge, a project that might help Shanghai keep pace with Beijing's emergence as the cultural capital of China.

About 75 people have been rescued from flooding in the Braithwaite area of Plaquemines Parish, a rural stretch of citrus farms and subdivisions that was devastated by Katrina in 2005.