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Jack's goal was to now buy these twelve acres and the five hundred-acre Freund Ranch above his property, which was vital to his water needs.
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Next to it was the outdoor impact sled, wet and dry skid pads, and a hundred-acre dirt track and obstacle course for off-road testing.
The Ark Boyd Morrison 2009
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His charming daughter Vronique had studied enology in France but was drawn to Oregon and, in 1987, her father bought a hundred-acre property next to Eyrie and she was put in charge.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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Granted, I had intended, when I departed the driveway, to also check on our old hundred-acre farm out on the ridge, which also resides in that general direction.
Wastrel jhetley 2008
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This also applies to our "hundred-acre wood", the abandoned ridge farm we own.
Narrow window of opportunity jhetley 2008
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His charming daughter Vronique had studied enology in France but was drawn to Oregon and, in 1987, her father bought a hundred-acre property next to Eyrie and she was put in charge.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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Its hundred-acre plat had been a “farm” in name only for decades, as sycamores and sugar maples and chestnut trees reclaimed its hillsides and valleys.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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To the extent possible, he wanted privacy in his hundred-acre share of the landscape before him.
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Its hundred-acre plat had been a “farm” in name only for decades, as sycamores and sugar maples and chestnut trees reclaimed its hillsides and valleys.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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‘Yes; and the next thing we knew was that there was a crop of wheat on that horse’s back as big as anything you ever saw in a hundred-acre field, and we had to hire twenty men to help reap it!
The Olive Fairy Book 2003
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