Example sentences of "[num] [prep] square mile [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not value our country sufficiently , we let any rich man enclose hundreds of square miles of gorgeous mountain , heath or forest and do not care what devastation arises from the growth of commercialisation … . |
| 2 | Here , aerial photography taken under drought conditions during the summer months is revealing hundreds of square miles of ploughed out prehistoric ( and later ) landscapes which survive below soil level , but which are only evident as marks in the growing crops . |
| 3 | The legacy of 150 years of frenzied exploitation , first by capitalism , then by Soviet power , is the hideous wasteland covering hundreds of square miles around the city . |
| 4 | In 1960 , looking at sub-saharan Africa as a whole , such land was still densities were still only about 77 per square mile of cultivable land , or 3 hectares per head . |
| 5 | The monopoly was normal practice , and the boundary chosen was intended simply to make sure that the Company did not go east of the Bay into areas claimed by New France ; nobody had any idea that the river system of the Bay gave the Company an area — known as Rupert 's Land after Prince Rupert , the Governor of the Company — that covered millions of square miles to the west . |
| 6 | This year it 's extended far further than usual , and you 've got hundreds of thousands of square miles of water which is much warmer than usual in the Pacific . |