Acharacle and Mallaig dealt with a 100-acre heath fire, while crews from Stornoway and South Lochs extinguished a 24-acre grass fire on Lewis.
Kelley owns two other farms in the Lexington area: Bluegrass Hall, a 200-acre property that formerly housed his racing operation, and Hurricane Hall, a 300-acre farm from which he conducted the breeding part of his horse business.
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In an artsy beach town that's now an affluent suburb of San Diego, her 700-square-foot bungalow is on a half acre perched on a steep hill.
If there were such a thing as a cubic acre, three of them would form a cube 300 feet on a side.
We're talking a quarter acre, 2, 200 square feet, three bedrooms, two baths and a kitchen in need of remodeling.
The multimillion-dollar studios sit on 60 acres and include five sound stages, a 5-acre pond, a theater, a chapel, a commissary, a gymnasium, Perry's office, an art department where sets are designed, hair and makeup facilities, a wardrobe department, set decoration, a post-production facility and the backlot, according to the studio website.
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He offered a 600-acre country estate as a bail address, according to Sky News.
Carl Strang, a naturalist with DuPage county, says a single acre can produce 1.5m of them.
The 7, 800-sq ft estate sits on a one acre lot just 1.5 miles east of the city.
The pop star settled in celebrity-studded Calabasas, CA, renting out a one acre estate called Chateau Suenos.
Hive Energy wants a 25 megawatt development at Church Farm in Hacheston covering a 127 acre (51 hectare) site.
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Cheltenham residents are being asked for their views on plans for a five acre area of the town centre.
Thirty-five miles southeast of Las Vegas is a 280-acre shining oasis on a parched desert plain: the power plant called Nevada Solar One.
That planned hub on a 20 acre site could be near Abermule outside Newtown or by the more remote village of Cefn Coch.
Meantime their Black Country counterparts, chaired by the managing director of Hadley Industries Stewart Towe, chose a 226 acre site on the north eastern outskirts of Wolverhampton near the M54.
Plans for the logistics depot which will include parking for about 56 heavy goods vehicle trailers and a workshop have also been put forward on a four acre (1.6 ha) site.
The facility, which will occupy a 3 acre piece of land in Wakiso one of the Kampala city suburbs, will offer specialized healthcare, nursing care and short-term assisted living for the elderly.
Until the mid-1980s, when the oil bust hit and jobs began drying up, Premont was a thriving oil and ranching town with state-of-the-art schools, including a 30-acre agricultural farm and a roping arena.
Then another barbed wire fence had to be put around the first barbed wire fence, and then a third barbed wire fence had to be put around the second till the whole compound covered a half acre.
They set up the venture in 1966 on a 12-acre lot that had been a burial ground for horses.
One such battle unfolded at the Paddocks, a 240-acre subdivision near Cumming, a suburb near an interstate with a public school district that has a good reputation.
Shortly after winning independence, Congress enacted legislation that called for newly acquired western lands to be divided into large 640-acre plots and sold for a dollar an acre.
Though 500, 000 acre-feet might sound like a lot, California uses 80 million acre-feet a year.
Their frugality paid off: in their midtwenties, when most of their friends weren't even married yet, they bought a quarter-acre lot of land and had a house built.
According to plans released last month by the City of Cupertino, the campus, which will cover a 175-acre area, will also feature a separate corporate fitness center and a 1, 000-seat auditorium, along with an additional 300, 000 square feet of research facilities and a low-carbon central plant that will supply the majority of the power needed for the campus.
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Next door the Kauffmans also own a 21-acre parcel, where their son runs a marina.
Artists including the Flaming Lips, Kid Cudi and Michael Franti and Spearhead will rock out at Lakeside, a 600-acre former steel mill, now being used as a concert venue for the first time.
The new 11-story American Embassy building will be surrounded by gardens and a partial moat on a circular 5-acre plot ringed by a tall wall.
Set on a 32-acre estate, the palace was designed in 1894 by a British architect, William Ward Marret, who employed an idiosyncratic combination of Renaissance and baroque styles to create an immense structure that was clearly intended to rival the palaces of European royalty.
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According to information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency, bin Laden was holed up on the third floor of a house in a one-acre compound just off Kakul Road in Bilal Town, a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the entrance to the academy.
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