It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending.    From LearnThat.org.  [Thomas Paine Source: The American Crisis, no. 4, September 12, 1777 ]

Noun : wooded acres. ,acres of Oriental rugs.    From Dictionary.com. 

The wetland of about 40 or 50 acres is now protected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save This House] Reference

Although around here, 97 acres is a pretty decent size farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Things on Small Parcels] Reference

An adjacent lot with eight additional acres is also for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relative Values] Reference

Larry Malvin An adjacent lot with eight additional acres is also for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photos: Homes Near Great Fall Foliage] Reference

That would bring the total of campus open space to over 30 acres from the now 17 acres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thumbs Up on Chihuly at Seattle Center « PubliCola] Reference

Still 30 to 35 acres is a pretty large amount of land in a nearly inaccessible patch of mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracing (1/1)--Happy Birthday Sunnytyler001] Reference

The center of the Mall, a space of about seven acres, is open to the skylights in the ceiling far above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mall of America] Reference

I realize that 10,000 acres is a lot of land, but the animals ARE in an enclosure no matter how you slice it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Look Over the Fence] Reference

Festival of Quilts was a complete wallow in acres and acres of superb craftmanship that took your breath away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birmingham, Festival of Quilts...] Reference

Having said that, 1200 acres is a lot of land … and why does everyone feel the need to memorialise everything?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC)] Reference

A man who has a farm of 3,000 or 4,000 acres is called a cockatoo and a man with 20,000 acres is known as a selector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts About Canada and Australia] Reference

From 1977 to 1979 the state bought an additional 756 acres from the Shepard family which now comprises nearly 800 acres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack London State Historic Park in Sonoma County, Northern California] Reference

DPG, covering 798,855 acres, is located in the Great Salt Lake Desert, approximately 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

The material use may be commenable, but I hope a glass house with a pool built on 1.25 desert acres is not what the world aspires to.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEW MARMOL RADZINER PREFAB in Joshua Tree | Inhabitat] Reference

To come up with the largest density, we'll use the small acreage figure, so 172 housing units divided by 129 acres is 1.33 units/acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living in Dryden: Hamlet density] Reference

With Van der Vaart in acres on the edge of the area, and screaming for a pass, Bale elects to attempt a low cross to absolutely nobody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened] Reference

He has 310 acres, which is used for hay, oats and pasture.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.muscatinejournal.com] Reference

We live on 12 acres, which is kind of an agricultural area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference

We now have approximately 8,000 in titled acres in the Savannah area.    From Wordnik.com.  [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference

We are about 153000 acres, which is one of the top holders in the play.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

The Farm Service Agency said we had about 196,000 acres, which is up 2.5 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Farm Press RSS Feed] Reference

But, at last report, we were already at 311,000 acres, which is easily a state record.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2007] Reference

We're not talking about a fire that has consumed 24,000 acres, that is 5 percent contained.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2006] Reference

They want to buy 2,000 acres, which is three times the size of Arlington National Cemetery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2006] Reference

It is now about 46,000 acres, which is a little bit more than we anticipated when we started.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2005] Reference

In 1909 the average was 93.7 acres, which is less than half what it was fifty years previous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

This is expected to equate to at least 500 acres, which is the equivalent of 500 football pitches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News from Web 2.0 Journal] Reference

The total acreage of the monument is about 327,000 acres, which is about a third of the Sequoia National Forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By George Frampton On Sequoia National Forest] Reference

Although planted area is a record at 77.483 million acres, that is 1 million less than what the trade was expecting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soybean Prices Wilt in Sun] Reference

We have 1,240 acres of ground space covered by buildings, while Chicago had 679 acres, which is nearly twice as much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference

We have 1,200 acres, which is much larger than any exposition ever held, about 688 acres being the property of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference

He would do anything rather than part with an acre of it, now that the acres were his own to leave behind him to his son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph the Heir] Reference

The Company's leased and committed acreage in the Eagle Ford play now stands at 52,000 net acres, which is comprised of about.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference