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• “-- 'Specimens of the British Poets', by Thomas Campbell, London, 1819, ii. 134, 'sq'.] [Footnote 5: Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset [1637-1706], esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, was alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III.”

  Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1

• “I was excited to finally own a piece of property, my own home, even if it was just 1,023 sq ft and a condominium to boot.”

  The Huffington Post: Zannah P. Becker: Walking Away: My Story

• “There had been speculation that the new retailer would give up on opening so-called "big box" stores of between 30,000 to 35,000 sq ft, which put it at loggerheads with established UK chains Currys and Comet.”

  The Guardian: Best Buy delays store openings as it fails to impress UK shoppers

• “Under the trust's programme on its 20 sq km Killerton Estate, near Exeter, badgers will be caught in live traps, injected with the licensed BCG vaccine, marked so they will not be injected again and released unharmed.”

  The Guardian: National Trust to begin badger vaccine trial

• “Even if Fred Meyer wanted to, they would not have been able to fill a 200,000 sq ft. store 60 years ago.”

  Thank heaven (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “The 15,000 sq.ft. of building is costing over $350 per sq/ft.”

  Is it time for the city to fold on the "Heritage Building"? (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “Above the shops there is 200,000 sq ft of office space spread across seven floors.”

  The Guardian: Historic West End hotel given £300m art deco revamp to offer high-spec leisure space

• “• A story said that big food retailers in Britain had permission for another 21.4m sq ft of supermarket space, enough for "more than 16,000 new stores".”

  The Guardian: Corrections and clarifications

• “A regional breakdown should have said 7.4m sq ft of such space was planned for Scotland, instead of 16.7m; 5.1m for the south-east, instead of 11.6m; and 4.8m for the north-west, instead of 10.9m Revealed: how supermarkets plan to build thousands more stores, 22 December, page 3.”

  The Guardian: Corrections and clarifications

• “One-bedroom properties, at an average of 46 sq metres, are 4 sq metres short of the recommended size, it adds in its recent report The Case for Space.”

  The Guardian: RIBA condemns 'shameful shoe box homes' now built in Britain

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