acre

They bought one acre of land to build a small house.

The farm covers nearly fifty acres beside the river.

From the porch they looked out over an acre of open desert.

The new airport has acres of empty space around the runways.

We still have acres of time before the train leaves.

There's a whole acre of homework piled on his desk tonight.

The old Scottish acre was larger than the English one.

Several countries once measured farmland in their own acres.

The old deed listed the farm as three acres in the Chester measure.

A single acre near Chester once covered far more ground than a modern one.