They might no longer be the biggest landowners: more people now worked off the estate than on it.

The big landowners and the old feudal officials have run away.

The regime could do this because the government was Iraq's biggest landowner.

The monastery became one of the biggest landowners in Russia.

But there's no getting away from the fact that I'm a big landowner there.

The family became the biggest landowners in the district by the 17th century.

Is a big landowner who lives somewhere else on therents.

"If big landowners paid what they owed, the treasury would be better off."

The family was once the biggest landowner in the area.

The exchanges of favors also happened among politicians and big landowners.