Example sentences of "working the land " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such advances are to be made and put into practice by the people working the land , then higher soil losses can be ‘ tolerated ’ . |
| 2 | Today we are in the vulnerable position of producing barely half our own food , with only 2½ per cent of our people directly concerned with working the land , and that percentage is still falling . |
| 3 | Kalchu was busy all the time , working the land from dawn to dusk . |
| 4 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 5 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 6 | WORKING THE LAND |
| 7 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 8 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 9 | Well er grown in just in rotation you know working the land every five or six year rotation er and er you had not very much hay . |