But then when it comes time to drill that acreage they may only end up developing a few thousand acres the sweet spots of the plays.

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But have a fire break out on a day like yesterday, with the weather conditions they were, we knew that we were going to be in for a long battle--about two to three hundred thousand acres in our area.

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Last year, an estimated four hundred thousand acres of opium poppies were planted in Afghanistan, a fifty-nine-per-cent increase over the previous year.

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The state's giant landowners had made a travesty of the Jeffersonian ideal of 160 acres, assembling dominions that ballooned to one thousand times or more that size.

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The development of a hundred and thirty-eight acres at the junction of two major interstates was a challenge because a hundred and fifty thousand tons of contaminated soil had to be removed before the project on the site of the old steel mill could even begin.

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He had also been a pastor, a bank president, and an entrepreneur, who once brought twenty-five thousand settlers to southwest Louisiana to farm for an English company that had bought a million and a half acres of land there.

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