This is a quarter-acre lot, so less mowing is a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How does your garden grow?] Reference

No, this is only a rusted keel upended in the quarter-acre back yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unmanned] Reference

The home sits on a wooded quarter-acre lot, adjacent to a golf course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plymouth Places] Reference

It is surrounded by about a quarter-acre of perfectly manicured grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Expensive Homes In The...] Reference

The quarter-acre building contained the files of all LAPD cases, solved or unsolved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Coyote]

And as Judy was telling you, they actually have focused from an acre down to a quarter-acre area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2006] Reference

This year there will be no scruffiness or rough edges permitted in the green grid that is my quarter-acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [On this Earth Day, a question: Take care of the garden or let it grow wild?] Reference

We sat in the open air, under a starry sky, on an expanse of Persian rugs that must have taken up a quarter-acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses: Saudi Arabia, 2008] Reference

Once you start looking at government across a quarter-acre of fescue as a homeowner, perspectives and politics change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

Alderman Humphrey said the phrase "quarter-acre" ought to be changed to five acres; whereupon he was told, almost in terms by Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

Their life savings are in their homes and maybe that little half-acre they have or quarter-acre or whatever they might be living on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2009] Reference

You know the kind: stores in big boxes, houses with four-car garages on quarter-acre lots, plenty of Olive Gardens for family dining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Justice]

Potential Threat: The property is for sale and is being marketed for the house "as is" or the land, which is less than a quarter-acre site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Lifson: Will We Lose Another Frank Lloyd Wright House?] Reference

Bill! she tore a quarter-acre from the land - scape.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse] Reference

The 17,618-square-foot building sits on about a quarter-acre land parcel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun Journal] Reference

For 22 years she has been trapped in a quarter-acre mind-numbingly boring pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Observer | Complete Issue] Reference

Officials in Skowhegan barred Obert from building on a quarter-acre parcel near downtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORLDMag.com] Reference

The fire scorched about a quarter-acre and threatened one structure before it was knocked down.    From Wordnik.com.  [10News.com - Local News] Reference

His vineyard was on a quarter-acre section, the vines trained on wires strained to concrete posts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

All were set within the same quarter-acre along a walking path between Park Street and the Kmart store.    From Wordnik.com.  [WCAX - Local News] Reference

First neighbors with hoses, then firefighters douse quarter-acre brushfire amid homes south of Vandevert Road.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Many of these choice locations will be in narrow corners formed by the watering circles - four in each quarter-acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Last summer, he put a quarter-acre garden in front of City Hall and has since planted a strawberry patch atop a bus shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference

McHatten Creek Ranch is planned for 434 homes ranging in size from 1,600 to 2,400 square feet on quarter-acre and third-acre lots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vail Trail - All Sections] Reference

She's steadily been working for more than a year to turn a physical piece of her family's past into a quarter-acre community garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference

The settlement creates a hard cap of three adult roosters for the chicken and egg operation Rubalcaba started on her quarter-acre lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

Berea College in Kentucky has a 480-acre farm founded in 1855 and the more recent Lawrence University quarter-acre garden is also listed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CampusProgress.org] Reference

Firefighters Wednesday were battling a quarter-acre grassfire in the Pacific Palisades area that was reportedly threatening one structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports] Reference