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- noun Land where
grain is grown.
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Examples
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Expanding world population has cut the grainland per person in half, from 0.23 hectares in 1950 to 0.10 hectares in 2007.
When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide 2009
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The farmer of grainland in a country where slavery is un- known habitually retains only a small number of laborers in his service, and at seed-time and harvest he hires additional hands, who live at his cost for only a short period.
Jena as de Tocqueville's "democracy" where Black Americans are a "threat" to Whites Marian 2007
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The current amount of land used for grain is currently ~.11 ha/person 666.032 M ha grainland 2000.
Francois and Dano on Agricultural Yields « Climate Audit 2006
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All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad silent stretch of grainland, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all.
A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad silent stretch of grainland, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all.
A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad silent stretch of grainland, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all.
A Study in Scarlet 1887
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Expanding world population has cut the grainland per person in half, from 0.23 hectares in 1950 to 0.10 hectares in 2007.
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Expanding world population has cut the grainland per person in half, from 0.23 hectares in 1950 to 0.10 hectares in 2007.
unknown title 2009
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This ongoing shrinkage of grainland per person makes it difficult for the world's farmers to feed the 70 million people added to world population each year.
unknown title 2009
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This ongoing shrinkage of grainland per person makes it difficult for the world's farmers to feed the 70 million people added to the world population each year.
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