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  • It gave way, sometimes to small-holding and farming supplemented by hunting and fishing, sometimes to nomadic reindeer husbandry.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Matterhorn 2009

  • It gave way, sometimes to small-holding and farming supplemented by hunting and fishing, sometimes to nomadic reindeer husbandry.

    One People In Four Countries: Part I Matterhorn 2009

  • Mother to five children, she lives on a small-holding in Pembrokeshire.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • On his Hertfordshire small-holding, and later on the Isle of Jura, he kept chickens and goats, grew vegetables and struggled to be self-supporting.

    The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews) 1999

  • At least 29 people have been killed since Friday, when fighting broke out between small-holding farmers and Maasai cattle herders in Kilosa, 350 kilometres (218 miles) west of Dar es Salaam.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Conditions were created for the flourishing of small-scale farmers, and despite the constraints in land redistribution, small-holding peasants produce 70% of food in the country.

    DEBATING CASTELLS AND CARNOY ON THE NETWORK SOCIETY1 1999

  • Nicholas Steyn for killing the six-month-old baby on his small-holding.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • He was a territorial magnate to whom the Tomb estates appeared a cosy small-holding.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • A cache containing about 100 "highly-sophisticated" firearms and between 20000 and 30000 rounds of ammunition was found by police on a Pretoria small-holding late on Saturday afternoon, spokesman

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He said the owners of the plot had not known of the container's contents, adding police searched the small-holding after receiving information.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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