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...The Bentley has yielded more than $500mn in sales — or about 40 per cent of the inventory — in less than a year and before a single shovel has scraped the earth....
...I wanted to be involved in ag, but the price of land was outrageous, and I realised there's no chance that I could ever farm traditionally, simply because I couldn't afford to buy the land or lease the land...
...Oh, for a time machine. In 2000, the average price of an acre of prime arable land in the UK was around £3,000. By 2015 that had leapt to over £9,000....
...She doesn’t agree with everything he’s done, notably the stimulus cheques of up to $1,400 that he sent out to Americans earning less than $75,000 a couple of months after he took up office....
...Today the population peaks at about 5,000 and fewer than 1,000 people are thought to live in Idlewild year-round. But Stubbs says that to reduce its meaning to numbers would be a disservice....
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...“In terms of evacuation centres, they have to be run differently because they can’t have 1,000 people in the same place.”...
...In Pennsylvania, gas gathering lines alone are on track to cover 1 per cent of the land area by 2030, according to a pipeline task force....
...Or the last dodo. But the last passenger pigeon’s death can be dated more or less exactly: the afternoon of September 1 1914. There was something else extraordinary about this extinction....
...“You could almost make the case that we’re worse off than we were at this time last year,” says John Robinson, who grows corn and soyabeans on 1,000 acres in Piatt county, Illinois, one of the most productive...
...Nobody had shown any interest in the land in decades, he reasoned. Six months later, the goldrush was at its height and prices leapt to $25,000 or even $30,000 an acre....
...her total screen time as Moneypenny in 14 films was less than two hours, and she spoke fewer than 200 words. I am somewhat more prolific, writing something like 70,000 words a year for publication....
...Donleavy lives at Levington Park, a house on 177 acres of land on the outskirts of the city of Mullingar in County Westmeath in Ireland. Mighty oaks and horse-chestnuts stood alongside the drive....
...Today, less than 1 per cent of the rail traffic that clanks through town day and night actually stops in Springfield. We passed four, five, six-bedroom houses on sale for $150,000-odd....
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