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This could all be done on unarable land so no food crop land need be used.
Market Faces a Disturbing Oil Forecast - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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They see a country with half its population living on the size of the state of Texas, surrounded by mostly unarable land and a sinking water table.
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The Chief Minister offered the Tatas unarable land in West Medinipur for setting up the manufacturing unit, but the latter preferred this agricultural land and the supposedly pro-people Left Front government in order to oblige the influential multinational company surrendered meekly to this compulsion.
Archive 2006-09-01 Abhay N 2006
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Climate change, if we don't do something about it, will become a national security concern because more and more land will become unarable, and people will fight more and more over that which is.
Remarks By The President At Dnc Lunch In Palo Alto Ca ITY National Archives 2000
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I have paid my respects above to the tilled crops and the pastured pig for the arable land, and for the unarable land I would still emphasize the pig and give him other sources of food to supplement pasture.
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Did "forest" mean also moorland, wild and unarable land?
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
yarb commented on the word unarable
A small smeary mustache, which he's cut from photographs of his heroic masterposeur, struggles to survive on a pitted unarable lip. He frigs its greasy ends, but to no avail: they will not even form points, let alone stand stiff.
- William Gass, The Tunnel
May 11, 2009