This is about one-half of 1 percent of the country's billion acres of farmland.

Pleasant has expanded snow making to 85 percent of its 198 acres, of which half is considered intermediate terrain.

It is only about 13 percent of today's 450 acres that comprise the Capitol Grounds.

However, only 20 percent of the park's 750 acres is fit for the use of the general public.

About 95 percent of Yosemite National Park's more than 700,000 acres are wilderness areas.

About 80 percent of the cemetery's 250 acres has already been used, he noted, so the size of the fund becomes increasingly important.

Other examples of development bumping up against open space can be found throughout the county, where just 4 percent of its 152,768 acres are undeveloped.

About 90 percent of Vail's 4,000 skiable acres are on Federal land.

Individuals own less than 10 percent of Russia's roughly 1 billion acres of farmland.

Only 7 percent of his 85 acres are given to vinifera, almost exclusively chardonnay.