"How can you turn 16 acres into a grave site?"

Although the Mexican government turned 366,000 acres into a butterfly sanctuary, it has failed to protect them.

More importantly, there can be no question about the benefit to be derived from turning 2,500 acres of wasteland into the country's biggest man-made nature reserve.

The Mayor has spent several years engineering a deal to turn 2.2 acres of municipal parking lot into an Indian-run gaming palace.

The new definition turned as much as 10 million acres of wetlands into ordinary ground, outside the protective rules.

The Indians were angered because the town of Oka decided to turn 55 acres adjacent to the Indian community over to a golf course.

Guarantees Watson, "Five hundred sheep will turn 10 grassy acres into a golf course, overnight."

Five thousand parking spaces could be added while still turning more than 35 acres of building and parking lots into green space.

But it was in the midst of turning 100 acres of woodlands and wetlands into a setting for art.

Three years ago, he turned four acres of the farm into a nursery in which he raises 500 species of flowers.