The cemetery is a tiny vestige of the Grand Prairie, a five-acre plot of wild, woolly grasses and wildflowers amid a lonesomeness of cornfields.

One- , three- and five-acre plots are far from the amber waves of grain that rustle in the American Dream.

The Green is a five-acre (two-hectare) plot located in the center of downtown Hanover, New Hampshire.

An attempt had been made to offset recent enclosures by letting out a few five-acre plots, rent and tithe free, to deserving poor, but the newer legislation continued to make things difficult.

Ms. Sheehan, working through a surrogate, bought a five-acre plot on a barren stretch of road here.

Land that can be developed, or already is, is usually sold in five-acre plots.

Many grand estates were subdivided into two- to five-acre plots and developed.

An avid advocate against lawns, Mr. Pollan lives in rural Connecticut on a five-acre plot that is largely uncut meadow, he said.

Environmentalists and some local residents have complained that the Yorks' five-acre plot in Sunninghill Park is in a designated greenbelt.

But the French Navy resisted until Mr. Chirac opted for the five-acre plot on the Quai Branly, where a convention center had been planned.