Sentences with phrase «of acres devoted»

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80 percent of the 200 - acre site is devoted to parkland (including 9000 trees) with the intent to blur the lines between architecture and nature.

Today, Auvil Fruit Co. owns more than 1,500 acres of farmland devoted to growing apples and cherries.

Everyone was saying they remain the best team in the EPL until last night, with acres of space now devoted to telling all and sundry how weak and inadequate the current Chelsea team has become.

As I've written about before (most recently in a Houston Chronicle op - ed), here in Houston ISD we have one of the nation's most advanced central kitchens for the preparation of school food: a state - of - the - art, $ 51 million facility that takes up 15 - acres, with 95,000 square feet devoted to baking, «cook / chill» and cold food preparation, as well as football - field - sized freezer and dry storage areas.

Nancy and Hugh Helm and Heather and Matthew Lillard were jointly awarded the Five Acres Award for their inter-generational support and many years of devoted service to Five Acres.

If we devoted 23 million acres in the southeastern United States to lipidcane with 20 percent oil, we estimate that this crop could produce 65 percent of the U.S. jet fuel supply.

Replacingjust 20 percent of America «scurrent thirst for gasoline with current biofuels made from conventionalfeedstocks like soy or sugar would require a mass of farmland the size of California, Indiana, Nevada and Michigancombined — 260 million acres — devoted only to growing fuel.

«If a quarter of all agricultural land — about 60 million acres — were devoted to energy, we would need a 1 percent efficiency to meet all the transportation fuel needs of the United States,» Alivisatos says.

Rottstock's 400 acres outside Berlin are devoted to potatoes, grain, and grass for his herd of 100 cattle.

• In 2004, 74 million acres of U.S. land were devoted to corn forlivestock feed as well as food crops.

Through a security gate, past tattooed guards who put stickers across the camera lens of our smartphone, we're finally within the Millbrook Proving Ground, 700 acres of hilly countryside some 45 miles north of London devoted to the development of automotive technology.

In 1979, with assistance from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd purchased 340 acres of land in Marfa, Texas, on which he established the Chinati Foundation, an exhibition venue devoted to large - scale, permanent installations by Judd and several of his contemporaries, including John Chamberlain and Dan Flavin.

Today, 89 percent of cultivated land, about 3 billion acres, is devoted to annuals.

Correction: Today, 89 percent of cultivated land, about 3 billion acres, is devoted to annuals.

The city devotes 13.5 % of its land, or 27,000 acres to parks.