The spill would be measured in square meters, not square kilometers.
New home sales have been picking up for several months, and that trend continued in August, with sales, as measured in square meters, up 13.3 percent year on year, after a 14.5 percent rise in July.
The sales totaled nearly 460, 000 square meters in October and hit 950, 000 square meters in November 2010.
On Wednesday, figures from data provider China Real Estate Information Corporation showed that in terms of floor area, housing sales in the final week of May rose 39.6% from a week earlier to 107, 200 square meters in Shenzhen, and 27.1% over the previous week to 185, 400 square meters in Shanghai.
In 2011 it co-founded e-Shang, a warehousing developer and operator based in Shanghai. e-Shang has grown from a portfolio of warehouses of 50, 000 square meters in 2011 to its current 1 million square meters of completed and developing projects, buoyed by the rapid growth of e-commerce in the country.
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Heiliger says that his device takes up about 30 square meters, whereas traditional systems can be up to 300 square meters in size.
In terms of floor area, property construction starts increased 16% to 1.9 billion square meters in 2011, a growth rate down sharply from 42% in 2010, data released Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
Sitting on 1.6 million square meters, the sumptuous island is divided into about 535 plots ranging in size from 1, 000 square meters and 3, 000 square meters.
Transaction volume rose 55.7% to 1, 488, 500 square meters in the city, according to real estate news and information portal Soufun.
Excluding subsidized housing, housing sales rose 20.7% from a week earlier to 312, 000 square meters in Shanghai alone last week, according to Shanghai Deovolente Realty Co.
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The exhibition area was enlarged by 15 percent to 140, 000 square meters and, in addition, one exhibition hall was converted into the entrance for consumers and community.
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Anyone who wishes to create a new store in France of more than 300 square meters must first gain permission from a government commission that includes -- wait for it!
During the first 27 days of November, new home sales in Shanghai totaled only 382, 000 square meters, Deovolente data showed.
The largest, 20, 000 square feet (1, 858 square meters), is in Tominosuka, Japan.
Teams of ten or so, each ensconced in an area of perhaps a hundred square meters, handle most of a product's assembly.
He is also in negotiations to sell the 35, 000 square meters of office space to a single buyer and expects to finalize a deal before summer.
Fu Wah has developed nearly 1.5 million square meters of property since its inception in 1988.
In London alone, there are approximately 1 million square meters of green roofs planned, with about 200, 000 square meters already installed.
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His own home, just three square meters (yards), stands in stark contrast to the smart villas where he spends his working days.
Organizers say the expo will feature, among other attractions, 50, 000 square meters of exhibition space, three islands in an artificial lake and the world's largest flag.
They can be arranged in different shapes and sizes, from two to thousands of square meters.
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And Jon Naar, author of "Design for A Livable Planet, " suggests that 15 to 20 plants are enough to clean the air in a 1, 500 square foot office area (139 square meters).
Located on the Cotai Strip, the Galaxy Macau will almost double in size after the second phase of construction is completed in mid-2015, with the addition of 450, 000 square meters of space.
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The micro-wind turbine can be arranged in a range of shapes and sizes, from two to thousands of square meters.
The "Tunguska Event" that flattened over 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908 was caused by a stony asteroid only 50 meters in diameter exploding in the lower atmosphere.
Construction on 260, 000 square meters of office, commercial, residential and hotel space is to start in 2001 and be completed in two phases by 2007.
Besides providing food service and groundskeeping for the 900, 000 square meters of lawn space at the headquarters of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Plano, Texas, Aramark also maintains a herd of buffalo and longhorn steers there--part of the landscape since Ross Perot founded the company in 1962.
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