The farmers abandoned the starve-acre fields after years of failed crops.

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

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

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.

According to the land registry, every US survey acre equals 43,560 square feet.

After the kids' party, toys and snacks were scattered all over hell's half acre, and it took hours to clean up.