Land speculators also contributed to this by buying land cheap and selling it for expensive prices.

Land prices have risen dramatically in recent years, resulting in the subdivision of pastures that once served dairy farms and mid-size ranches.

In 1853, the Island government passed the Land Purchase Act which empowered them to purchase lands from those owners who were willing to sell, and then resell the land to settlers for low prices.

Land prices were rapidly increasing due to the Japanese asset price bubble, inflation increased at the highest rate since 1975, unemployment reached a record high at 3. 2 %, bankruptcies were rife, and there was political rancor over LDP-proposed tax reform.

In the 1880s the long boom culminated in a frenzy of speculation and rapid inflation of land prices known as the Land Boom.

Land prices in the area have increased sharply, but despite its increased appeal to professionals, Kensington still remains a predominantly working class, immigrant community.

Land grants to the railroads meant they could sell tracts for family farms ( 80 to 200 acres ) at low prices with extended credit.

* King of Sand Land-As the current ruler of Sand Land the king makes enormous profit by selling bottled water at high prices.

Land prices in the same period dropped dramatically, as the farm was bought for £ 11, 165 in 1858 and sold for only £ 1, 800 in 1899, losing 84 % of its value.

Land prices have risen considerably since 2001, with The Grove long regarded the most prestigious street in the suburb.

Land prices in Japan were the highest in the world at the time, and Kisho Kurokawa, one of Japan's most famous architects, has said that staggeringly ambitious buildings employing highly sophisticated engineering are still cheap, because companies pay 90 % of the cost for the land and only 10 % for the building.

* Land values can be estimated by using recent prices for similar plots of land sold in the area.

Land prices on what would become the shoreline had already jumped to $ 1, 000 an acre ; summer developments sprang up almost immediately.

Land prices needed to be high enough so that workers who saved to buy land of their own remained in the workforce long enough to avoid a labour shortage.

When oil prices spiked in 2007, Vintage notified the U. S. Bureau of Land Management of its intentions to find out if oil is contained in the Carrizo Plain.

Land prices contributed much more to the price increases than did structures.

Land would be available to all who need it and at reasonable prices.

Land prices around Yaowarat Road have always been one of the most expensive in Bangkok and Thailand due to limited land which is mostly owned by prominent Thai-Chinese families who are often leaders in their respective industries.

A Public Land Survey System survey of Kent County in 1885, showing 24 named townships and sectional subdivisions.

The district Jerichower Land consists of the following subdivisions:

In 1865, subdivisions west of what is now Maundrell Terrace were sold at the Brisbane Land Sales.

In 1992, after Lawrence E. Elkins High School was built to alleviate overcrowding from Clements, zoning issues forced many families in different subdivisions around the city of Sugar Land to send their children to both high schools.

But there are also some developed subdivisions along the town like the San Antonio Heights in Barangay San Antonio which was developed by Avida Land, A division of Ayala Land, and Portello subdivision which was developed by Camella Homes.

Sugar Land is currently negotiating with the communities of Greatwood, New Territory, and River Park, along with the subdivisions of Tara Colony and Tara Plantation to annex in the near future.

In 1992, after Elkins was built to alleviate overcrowding from William P. Clements High School, zoning issues forced many families in different subdivisions around the city of Sugar Land to send their children to both high schools.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

British Columbia also was expanded with the inclusion of the Stikine Territory in 1863, and upon joining Confederation with the addition of the Peace River Block, formerly part of Rupert's Land.

In the sequel Return to Never Land, Hook's comical side is expanded to the point where the character becomes, almost, a complete fool, little more than a joke but also a monster.

Neverland ( also spelled Never Land or expanded as Never Never Land ) featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them.

Within months, its army had expanded to several thousand armed fighters, camels were replaced by modern jeeps ( most of them were Spanish Land Rover Santana jeeps, captured from Moroccan soldiers ), and 19th-century muskets were replaced by assault rifles.

Land reform expanded under his administration.

After Matthew, as the church expanded beyond the Holy Land, Luke was written as a gospel to the Gentiles by Luke the Evangelist, probably in the 50s AD.

It has been expanded and slightly modified by Letters of Instruction and Manuals of Instruction, issued by the General Land Office and the Bureau of Land Management and continues in use in most of the states west of Pennsylvania, south to Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, west to the Pacific Ocean, and north into the Arctic in Alaska.

In the 1980s, Lavender expanded his focus as an historian, writing about the Pacific Northwest in Fort Vancouver ( 1981 ), Wyoming in Fort Laramie ( 1984 ), Utah and Arizona in Colorado River Country ( 1982 ) and River Runners of the Grand Canyon ( 1985 ), California in California: A Place, a People, a Dream ( 1986 ) and California: Land of New Beginnings ( 1987 ), and Colorado in The Telluride Story ( 1987 ).

Land devoted to the semi-dwarf wheat and rice varieties in Asia expanded from 200 acres ( 0. 8 km² ) in 1965 to over 40 million acres ( 160, 000 km² ) in 1970.

Land under cultivation expanded 70 % in 20 years.

The Land Rover arm of the Rover Group expanded dramatically after the late 1980s.

It is also possible for Super Game Boy games to make use of the SNES hardware for extra effects, as demonstrated in Contra: The Alien Wars, Donkey Kong, Kirby's Dream Land 2, A Bug's Life, Animaniacs and Toy Story ; these games had expanded sound when used with the Super Game Boy.

An expanded double-disc limited set of the music score was released by La-La Land Records in February 2011.

Around this time the band also re-released their first three studio albums in Special Editions, with bonus tracks, a remastered sound, expanded liner notes and, in the case of Wounded Land and Psychedelicatessen, special CD-ROM content.

Although the channel launched during a time when retransmission consent was becoming more common amongst cable networks and broadcast stations nationwide due to a provision in the 1992 Cable Act, MTV Networks chose to offer TV Land to cable system operators free for five years, as long as they added the channel to their expanded basic tiers during 1996.

Evolving from the earlier series This Land of Ours, a documentary series about Canada's agricultural and natural resources, This Land expanded its focus to include environmental and conservation issues.

The operation was streamlined, with most of the satellite factories in the West Midlands that built parts for the Land Rover being closed and production brought into the Solihull factory, which was expanded.

Mid 2009 Land Rover expanded the model range to include 110 and 130 Cab-Chassis, Panel Van and High Capacity Pick-up versions and late in the year announced the re-introduction of the 90 station wagon model for sale from early 2010.

On an expanded edition entitled Never, Never, Land Revisited was released.