acre
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To keep up with demand, he has started planting 3 acres of fresh lettuce every other week, rather than his typical 1 acre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
In 2014, they then held their wedding on the 1,200 acre property, which is located in Provence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Southeastern Utah, which is currently grappling with the 70,000-plus acre Cottonwood Fire, is under a rare “particularly dangerous situation” alert, which is the highest level of fire warning issued by the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
As well as the property - set in an acre of grounds on cliffs overlooking Downderry Beach - Darren has also won £250,000 cash.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
We’d lived in a small white house on an acre of land with many trees.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
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The blaze had grown to 10,374 acres, with 26% containment, as of Thursday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Rogan’s 11,000-square-foot mansion sits on 4 acres and has access to 300 feet of the Lake Austin frontage.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Eric Gropper has about 350 breeding cows on around 8,000 acres of grassland in south-west South Dakota.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
When he finally purchased a few acres of property in Provence in southern France, he discovered no peaceful meadow but a landscape full of murder and indifference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
During the early seventeenth century the English conquered Ireland and declared a half-million acres of Irish land open to settlement.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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