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  • The road turned down a hill and ran along a low, frozen swamp stamped with deer tracks, and then into a fifty-acre field.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • A few years after we started, we hired employees, and Mark sent two of them, James and Paige, to the fifty-acre field where the beef herd had wintered, to castrate a new calf.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • Charlie appeared in my office one day to announce that he had given up his flat in Kentish Town and had signed a two-year lease on a fifty-acre farm near Wales.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Charlie appeared in my office one day to announce that he had given up his flat in Kentish Town and had signed a two-year lease on a fifty-acre farm near Wales.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Charlie appeared in my office one day to announce that he had given up his flat in Kentish Town and had signed a two-year lease on a fifty-acre farm near Wales.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • We climbed a rickety fence, crossed a scrubby wood, and found ourselves in the fifty-acre hayfield that had been cut the night before.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • Charlemagne's royal hall, in his new capital at Aachen, was built on a fifty-acre complex of buildings, secular and religious, and was the largest stone structure north of the Alps. But it paled in comparison to the architectural majesty of Byzantium or Rome.

    How Muslims Made Europe Appiah, Kwame Anthony 2008

  • The fifty-acre park features a ramshackle collection of “thirty-eight historically accurate exhibits” from the world of Jesus: the inn where he was born; the Sea of Galilee, where tourists can snap pictures of him walking on the water; the tomb, with its “He is not here, for He is risen” sign.

    Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008

  • A fifty-acre strawberry farm producing high-quality berries requires an annual investment of at least $1 million.

    In the Strawberry Fields 1995

  • The land has since been subdivided into some 670 wooded parcels, ranging from one-and-a-half-acre to fifty-acre estates, laced with thirty miles of bridal paths.

    I is for Innocent Grafton, Sue 1992

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