(1) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(2) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(3) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(5) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
(6) On 23 July, having completed his final corrections, Grant died in his summer cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in New York state.
(7) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
(8) Pictures of the rebuilding of cottages would be beamed directly to "the government building, to me at home and to the website of the government", he said, adding: "Any citizen will be able to watch in real time what is happening."
(9) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(10) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(11) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(12) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(13) Those that have genuine integrity are now, actually, driving a massive cottage industry around the world, which is every day reducing CO2 emissions".
(14) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
(15) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
(16) In the summer, just after his second birthday in early July, the family booked a holiday cottage in Orkney.
(17) The simultaneous ingestion of glucose with cottage cheese or egg white protein decreased the glucose area response to glucose by 11% and 20%, respectively.
(18) Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment.
(19) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(20) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
Farmstead
Definition:
(n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
(2) The dynamics of a small group of people on an isolated farmstead are disrupted by the arrival of a disturbing stranger, who turns out to be uncomfortably familiar."
(3) During recent archaeological excavations in Viking Greenland, specimens of the human flea, Pulex irritans L., and the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus L., were recovered from several farmsteads.
(4) In southwestern New Jersey during 1986 and 1987, common barn-owls and pigeons were captured on farmsteads and tested for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies by a modified direct agglutination test.
(5) The few hunter-gatherers already living on Orkney were replaced and farmsteads were established across the archipelago.
(6) The distribution range of the tick (percent of infested farmsteads) in this case did not reduce.
(7) They cultivated the land, built farmsteads and rapidly established a vibrant culture, erecting giant stone circles, chambered communal tombs – and a giant complex of buildings at the Ness of Brodgar.
(8) Rattus norvegicus infestations on six farmsteads were poisoned with 0.5% 5-p-chlorophenyl silatrane and those on another six with 2.5% zinc phosphide.
(9) The farm's electrical service was modified so that the farmstead could be connected or disconnected from the primary neutral wire at 2-week intervals for 12 weeks.
(10) In the campo behind Castro Marim, Companhia das Culturas (doubles from €75, Rua do Monte Grande, +351 281 957 062, companhiadas culturas.com ) is a classy, country-chic small hotel in an old farmstead with vintage furniture, a soon-to-be-open hammam and a cork-lined barn for yoga and meditation.
(11) The steep hills on either side and the high mountains beyond are empty of human life, save for the occasional lonely farmstead embedded in the hillside.
(12) High concentrations and variations in Fe and Al in the cheeses indicate a significant possibility of uptake of these elements into the products during farmstead manufacturing processes.
(13) "The sprawling infrastructure of the housing masterplan, with houses, roads, gardens, link paths and car parking, will severely erode a large part of the green farmstead setting which is an integral part of Old Oswestry's appeal."
(14) Here, German émigré Eckhard Kost has built a quirky desert garden around an old farmstead, now a B&B – El Jardín de los Sueños , which means garden of dreams (doubles from €76).
(15) The wildlife service said the lions killed four goats at a small farmstead in the township of Kitengela, about 18 miles south of the capital.
(16) Fifteen experimental treatments with rodenticidal baits containing 0.1, 0.15 or 0.2% flupropadine were conducted on farmsteads against Rattus norvegicus infestations.
(17) Small fields of bright green grass enclosed by hedges, the farmstead and a cottage or two that are typical of counties as distant as Cheshire and Pembroke, Cornwall and Fife, owe their existence to the family dairy farm.