Indeed, since the beginning of the 1980's, America's total forest base has increased by 27 million acres.

His organization has obtained a $100,000 state grant to study expansion of the city's 450-acre industrial park by up to 200 acres.

The size of Athens' campus increased by more than 750 acres.

It also proposed expanding existing parks by some 10 million acres.

The town has grown by over 100 acres.

By 2003, its numbers had dropped by nearly a quarter to 30,760 ha/76,000 acres.

It has been enlarged downstream by about 60 acres (25ha) of made ground.

I had read about proposals to expand the boundary by more than two thousand acres but assumed it would never happen.

That fire grew by 1,000 acres today, to 2,710 acres.

Another big change is that the park's boundaries will expand by about 5,000 acres in the coming years through the purchase of adjacent private land.