Acres in example sentence

At the time of the cholera, in order to enlarge this, a piece of wall was pulled down, and three acres of land by its side purchased; but all the new portion is almost tenantless; the tombs, as heretofore, continue to crowd together towards the gate.

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Tribes lost millions of acres.

The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.

Green School sits in south-central Bali, and it's on 20 acres of rolling garden.

For instance, imagine that in 1900, you owned 100 acres of land someplace in the Midwest.

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