(n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(4) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(5) The staff pooled ranking had a Spearman rank correlation, r = .70, with resident overall performance upon the ACR Inservice Examination.
(6) We searched for a functional marker with which T cells mediating acquired cellular resistance (ACR) can be discriminated from those mediating delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) in mice immunized with Mycobacterium bovis BCG.
(7) The SF were derived from normal appearing subepidermoid biopsies of ACR individuals, their progeny and ocntrols.
(8) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(9) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
(10) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(11) Despite spanning more than 1,300 acres it will not, apparently, be a contender for the title of world's largest: that appears still to reside with the 47-stage Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, as certified by Guinness World Records .
(12) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
(13) Although fluorescein leakage had the strongest parametric correlation with the presence of coma relative to both ACR and TER in the full patient series (r = 0.58, P less than .01), multiple linear regression analysis indicated that concentrations of plasma lactate (t = 2.998, P = .006) and serum creatinine (t = 2.200, P = .036) were the factors responsible for this association.
(14) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
(15) Lionel Messi collected the ball on the right in acres of space, with one opponent between him and a clear run on Júlio César's goal.
(16) Blueberry barrens stretch over several acres in Wesley, Maine.
(17) Ekyae says the government provides only two of the 120 bottles of fertiliser he needs to cover his 1 hectare (2.52 acre) plot.
(18) The star couple paid £3.3 million for the 20-acre estate, £500,000 over the asking price.
(19) The village of Point Hope, Alaska, joined by numerous native and environmental groups, is now challenging offshore development on the 2.9 million acres in the Chukchi Sea, contending that MMS violated federal environmental laws when it conducted the lease sales.
(20) Calculating 400 trees for each acre, the trust said the money would, theoretically, be sufficient to save 28 billion trees.
Barony
Definition:
(n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
(n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Baroni’s attorney, Michael Baldassare, called the case “a disgrace” and said the US attorney’s office should be “ashamed” of where it drew the line on whom to charge.
(2) Media baronies are short of trust right round the world; even MPs and ministers in Britain's post-Leveson months lay claim to a higher reputation.
(3) In the whole trial, no one, not even Bridget Kelly, Bill Baroni or David Wildstein, ever testified that anyone ever said to me that this was an act of political retribution.” It was unclear from Wildstein’s testimony whether Christie knew then that the mess was manufactured for political reasons; however, Kelly testified she told Christie about Sokolich’s concerns about political retaliation during the week of the traffic jams at the bridge, which connects New York and Fort Lee.
(4) Kelly, Baroni and Wildstein all testified that Christie was informed about the lane closures either before or while they were going on.
(5) Bridget Kelly, Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, an executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were convicted of scheming with a former Christie ally, David Wildstein, to punish a Democratic mayor for not endorsing Republican Christie when he ran for re-election in 2013.
(6) Today’s verdict does not change this for me.” New Jersey turns on its tough-guy governor after bridge fiasco threatens his ambitions Read more Kelly and Baroni testified they believed the lane closures were part of a legitimate traffic study because, they said, that was what Wildstein told them.
(7) Bertens, who beat the one-time Croatian prodigy Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 out on Court 12, told the Guardian, “It’s going to be tough.
(8) Socially it was a divided and divisive document, often reflecting the interests of a baronial elite a few hundred strong in a population of several millions.
(9) David Wildstein, a former executive of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey , pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges on Friday, shortly before a 23 April indictment against Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni was unsealed.
(10) The great majority of the clauses entrenched baronial rights.
(11) There was no doubt the colonel was the more suitable spouse, being both Mr Darcy's cousin and a viscount, while Mr Alveston was the heir to a meagre barony, but Mr Alveston was the more easy on the eye and six years ago she might have connived to ensure his preferment.
(12) Next year his baronial enemies rebelled and forced him to concede Magna Carta.
(13) That wasn't done long ago because the Times and the ST were rival, unwilling baronies, protected in part by the terms of their fire-sale purchase three decades ago.
(14) • Doubles from €95, +351 273 919 031, lagostaperdida.com 14 Old Portugal , Ponte de Lima Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa De Pomarchão is a 15th-century baronial home that was enlarged in 1775 in the curly, knobbly Pombaline style.
(15) Those people were terminated by me and today, the jury affirms that decision by also holding them responsible for their own conduct.” Saying his experience as a “former federal prosecutor” helped him understand the case, Christie continued: “Like so many people in New Jersey, I’m saddened by this case and I’m saddened about the choices made by Bill Baroni, Bridget Kelly and David Wildstein.
(16) At worst the privy council is neither an instrument of baronial tyranny nor the last bastion of monarchist power.
(17) On October 23, 1963, Sir Alec signed an instrument of disclaimer of four titles of Scotland - the earldom of Home, the lordship of Dunglass, the lordship of Home and the lordship of Hume of Berwick, one United Kingdom peerage - the barony of Douglas and one British peerage - the barony of Hume of Berwick.
(18) According to a 2009 Guardian article, "Prestbury's tradition of discreet money has been swept aside by the bulldozing of old properties ... to make way for every sort of modern baronial style."
(19) Kelly was fired by Christie as his deputy chief of staff after the plot came to light, and Baroni resigned from his job as deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
(20) It also includes the four casualties of the scandal so far: Bridget Kelly, who was dismissed by Christie as his deputy chief of staff following the emergence of an email in which she had written: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee”; William Stepien, a senior Republican strategist now sidelined in the wake of the scandal; and two Christie appointments to the Port Authority that controls the bridge who resigned in December, David Wildstein and William Baroni.