Sentence examples for total amount of land from inspiring English sources

Between 2000 and 2003, some 1,070 hectares of green-belt land about 1,500 football pitches were converted to residential use, 8% more than during the previous four years.This upward trend is all the more surprising given that the total amount of land converted to residential use in the same period fell by 4%.

Under the Senate bill: farmers can count forest alongside rivers and lakes on their land as part of their conserved area, so reducing the total amount of land they need to protect or reforest.

Along with regional differences, the amount of GTGP land households planned to reconvert was significantly reduced by the respondent's age and off-farm household income and was significantly increased by the number of household laborers and total amount of land the household had enrolled in the GTGP.

INCRA estimates the total amount of land currently claimed by quilombos in Brazil to be around 4.4 million acres -- an area roughly the size of New Jersey.

In the last 15 years, the total amount of land under federal ownership has declined by 23.5 million acres, though most of this has been in the form of land disposals in Alaska and reductions in DOD land, according to the Congressional Research Service. .

The total amount of land area covered by our combined priority set spans almost 33% of the entire Neotropical region, of which ca. 22%, 1%, and 11% correspond to key ecoregion sets for species with aquatic larvae, terrestrial development or both developmental modes, respectively (Table S1).

In view of this we will strive to achieve a land-degradation neutral world …." This paragraph sets a goal of maintaining a world where the total amount of degraded land remains constant, and that would secure the currently available productive land for the use of present and future generations.

The average amount of cultivated land for rice seed production per household was 0.95 ha, and this area represents 85% of the total amount of cultivated land 1.16 ha.

According to the UN's data, derived from satellite images, the total amount of Andean land under coca has dropped by nearly a quarter since 1990.

The five most urban counties — Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union, all in northern New Jersey — had small increases in total amount of developed land, Mr. Evans said, "because, obviously, there's very little left to develop".

Figure 2 Percentage, by volcano, of the total amount of developed land and number of residents, employees, dependent-care facilities, and public venues in the lahar-hazard zones of the five active volcanoes in Washington.