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  • Other trips they made, sometimes accompanied by Dick, to his great dredgers working in the Sacramento basin, or his dam-building on the Little Coyote and Los Cuatos creeks, or to his five-thousand-acre colony of twenty-acre farmers, where he was trying to enable two hundred and fifty heads of families, along with their families, to make good on the soil.

    CHAPTER XVII 2010

  • But these twenty-acre work-animals of two-legged men of yours!

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • Police units, driven by muscular women with crewcuts, patrolled the twenty-acre complex in unmarked squad cars.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • Police units, driven by muscular women with crewcuts, patrolled the twenty-acre complex in unmarked squad cars.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • Police units, driven by muscular women with crewcuts, patrolled the twenty-acre complex in unmarked squad cars.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • I saw a twenty-acre place with a house that had a plot next door perfect for a gun shop, but the guy was asking for too much money, alas.

    shopping for real estate hradzka 2009

  • Against this deeply English backdrop, two dozen of us took a morning walk in a twenty-acre plantation of young walnuts that have sprung up from seed brought over from Kyrgyzstan in 1997 by Dr Gabriel Hemery, whose aim is to select and propagate new varieties of Juglans regia most suitable for timber from this unique source of genetic diversity.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Against this deeply English backdrop, two dozen of us took a morning walk in a twenty-acre plantation of young walnuts that have sprung up from seed brought over from Kyrgyzstan in 1997 by Dr Gabriel Hemery, whose aim is to select and propagate new varieties of Juglans regia most suitable for timber from this unique source of genetic diversity.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Anyway, they took over a twenty-acre park, a very important park in the neighborhood, with beautiful trees.

    Talkin' Sports with Ralph Nader 2008

  • Today, of course, the Fund collects millions of dollars to run five health clinics, a hospital, and a twenty-acre retirement community.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Steve Hulett 2007

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