An Irish acre measured about 7,840 square yards, making the old field unusually large compared with a modern acre.

A single acre-foot of water can irrigate approximately four acres of crops for a month in our climate.

Every autumn I walk through the old God's acre to watch the leaves fall among the weathered stones.

The villagers negotiated a fair schedule for the use of the acre-dale each season.

The meadow stretched an acre-breadth across the valley, dotted with wildflowers.

The estate covered several acre-breadths of rolling pasture, enough to support a dozen horses.

They measured out an acre breadth between the two hedges before sowing the seed.

Surveyors recorded the estate's boundaries in acre breadths to keep a consistent historical record.

In the old land register, distances were recorded in units like the acre's breadth, a historic chain used by surveyors to mark boundaries.

From the hilltop you could see acre's breadths of golden wheat stretching to the horizon.