A large temple also owned sizable tracts of land and employed thousands of laymen to supply its needs.

The Hungarian-born investor George Soros and Joe Lewis, owner of the Hard Rock Cafe, have also bought sizable tracts of lake and forest land in the region.

Everybody had abundant streaks or sizable tracts of blondness, all supported by dark roots under the outer layers of golden glow.

In 1908 it bought a sizable tract in a largely undeveloped section of Queens, which it later named Forest Hills Gardens.

The fact that several plantation owners divided up sizable tracts of land and gave them to their former slaves may also have contributed to these tensions.

Narragansett sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi granted Williams a sizable tract of land for his new village.

The western site is among the last sizable tracts open to development in the 2.5 square mile community.

James Brooke, who was to become the first White Rajah, received a sizable tract of land from the Sultan.

The availability of sizable tracts of land in the old industrial locations on the waterfront allows developers to offer prospective tenants large floors that are almost impossible to find in Manhattan.

The reasons include high operating costs, community hostility and soaring land values as developers scramble for sizable tracts of land on which to build housing, shopping malls and office buildings.