How To Use Allotment In A Sentence

I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
Farm shops go from strength to strength and growing vegetables in allotments is fashionable. Times, Sunday Times
Cabbages and cauliflowers have to go from Jubilee Allotment gardens, Kendal, so the Cumbria Education Department can raise a crop of healthy children.
A former minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, another lawmaker and a top former bureaucrat are in jail facing charges of corruption in a 2008 allotment of airwave to carry telephone signals. Coal India's Overseas Plans on Hold
Much of the introductory chapter consists of broad generalizations about Indians, culture areas, reservations, and allotment.

Also the hiring out by a rural landowner of allotment gardens can cause planning problems. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
Although I've grown my fair share of veg from the slightly more unusual end of the allotment crop market, such as cardoons, that doesn't mean I've grown all the conventional varieties you'll find on the plot.
The Fishwife herself, who gave me the young plants, says that her own crop failed – the tomatoes caught blight from the potatoes in her allotment and had to be ripped up and thrown away. Archive 2009-09-01
After Ojibwa families took their allotments, unallotted land on reservations was then sold to the public.
The duty-free allotment is per capita, not per stirpes. What stuff
For those individuals committed to a daily roughage allotment, the Manchester cobb salad is a more-than-satisfactory dish.
An allotment amnesty is to be held to allow unregistered holders to turn in their plots to be correctly recorded.
The firm is looking at helping to rescue local wildlife and investing in an allotment. Times, Sunday Times
In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
I would advise all residents who have considered renting an allotment to ‘come and have a grow’.
I'm an impatient person, which can be a problem when you're trying to grow fruit and vegetables on an allotment.
It was invariably fresh from local allotments or no farther away than the next county. Times, Sunday Times
You could also try bribing a friend with an allotment.
It's Easter weekend, and I don't have long to post because there is serious garden / allotment pootling to be done.
Posted on: Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 12: 03 CST The antibiotic, called azithromycin, is effective in treating infections such as syphilis, Chlamydia and Ureaplasma urealyticum - a vaccine clinics as their vaccine allotments allow. WN.com - Articles related to Study Simulates Car Crashes Involving Pregnant Women
In the event of a share issue a bank may handle the advertisement, application and allotment of shares.
Still harbour forlorn dreams of having time for an allotment. Times, Sunday Times
As well as filming on the Moors he was also planning to visit his grandfather's allotment where he had first developed his love of gardening.
Batey farms 74 acres (29 hectares) of his own land and he sharecrops neighbor Bill Matthew's 39 acres (16 hectares) allotment. Chapter 15
Other skills, such as cultivating onions, giant leeks, melons, carnations, fuchsias and roses for competition, are honed on allotments.
Allotments commonly became so divided by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing.
Unpopular plans to build ten family homes on unofficial allotments beside a village conservation area have been blocked.
Therefore, allotment of seats to youth festival winners for professional education courses should be stopped.
For Tiffin the good life is not swanking around the hot spots of London clubland but a chance to put on the wellies and head for his allotment.
For those individuals committed to a daily roughage allotment, the Manchester cobb salad is a more-than-satisfactory dish.
My decision to leave after 4th year came down to subject choice and teacher allotment.
The seats reserved for women, have been ‘taken'’ from men, - a reallotment of an occupied seat.
The swimming baths and the football ground faced each other only yards away from the corporation allotments.
But by 1926 all of the Oklahoma reservations (except the Osage mineral reservation) had been broken up by allotment.
The sharp allotment of this or that feature to nature or to nurture alone is therefore always wholly wrong: and the nice estimation of the relative importance of the natural as compared with the nurtural factors must necessarily be difficult, especially for the case of mankind, where critical observation, on a large scale, and with due control, of the effects of environment upon natural potentialities is still lacking. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
Like shabby houses and land allotments. Times, Sunday Times
Gardeners are near the end of their tether because of youngsters rampaging through their allotment, leaving a trail of devastation behind them.
They are also scouring rivers, parks, open land and allotments. The Sun
A young boy's carefully nurtured flowerbeds went up in smoke this week when firebugs set light to allotments and destroyed everything in their midst.
Their handiwork has been only too apparent in recent months on the riverbank, in the Fulford Cross allotments, and in Hospital Fields Road.
If Riley wants to develop open space by more than his allotment, he would be free to buy more development permits on the open market.
It might also be worth contacting your local allotments to see if anyone grows them. Times, Sunday Times
A few weeks ago I commented that many of our Lower Mainland lakes were being stocked with noticeably smaller allotments of rainbow trout.
The 1906 Burke Act exacerbated land loss on the reservation by removing the twenty-five-year restriction on sales of Indian allotments.
Why not consider taking on an allotment and growing your own fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs.
Over the years, students from rural and semi-urban areas manage to get a seat via a single window system of allotment.
Sow physalis in heated propagator; plant out shallots; mulch blackcurrants and raspberries; tidy strawberry bed; finish compost trenches on allotment where squash will grow; weed incessantly.
The Estates arranged for the allotment and collection of taxes, disbursed revenue for public works, and granted the king a portion of the taxes known as the don gratuit.
You can enter a competitive bid and take your chance of receiving an allotment at your bid price. Principles of Corporate Finance
Some allotment holders have been quick to defend their local councils and praise the service they offer. The Sun
Enlarging supportive allotment of the expense, strengthening the building of contingent, realizing the modernization of technical means in editorship at all.
For example, kinship practices that once favored partible inheritance may be collectively reformulated to favor primogeniture in response to shrinking land allotments and population growth.
The allotment garden exhibit is of great interest to the many show visitors who are growing fruits and vegetables for the first time. The Sun
One or two of the officials should be present at the port of Cavite, which is the landing-place of ships, two leagues from this city; and there should be also present on the ship, during its lading, the freighters who are ordinarily appointed, and an auditor, so that no cloth will be allowed to be laded except it be that contained in the said allotment. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments.
The allotment is based around four quadrants with different growing activity in each one.
The budget allotment for each county is below what is needed.
She gave me all the gen on the allotment and we agreed a time and a day to meet up there.
Is it the slattern who generates offspring solely for the sake of the allotment they command?
At the age of 75, the brothers still work side-by-side on neighbouring allotments, cultivating a bumper crop of vegetables every year.
You can view and print the actual scanned images of audited company accounts, changes in directors, allotments of shares, mortgages or charges and all recent documents filed.
The view was of a hilly allotment site with sheds and a railway station, and slimy, furrowed mud.
There were no objections to their plans and in fact many of the allotment holders welcomed them, saying the bees would help to pollinate their crops.
Section 304 (c) would direct the Secretary, if he determines that any amount of a State's allotment for any fiscal year will not be needed by the State, to reallot that amount to other States that need additional funds, in whatever manner the Secretary determines is appropriate. Analysis Of Goals 2000 Educate America Act
Although the law of equalized field allotments destroyed badly had its fortuitousness, productive forces development and historical progress was its inevitable results.
Although there is some evidence for localized schemes of drainage and regularized land allotment, there is no hint of any overall scheme of land division.
There will be allotments for keen gardeners and the pond will be converted into a natural swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
He then stated: ‘There is no reasonable prospect of equivalent allotments being provided, so there should be no allocation.’
In rural areas, peasants have land use rights, and every five years there is a reallotment of land among farmers to adapt to the changing social structures of their communities.
We own a house in London backing onto a main railway line, and rent a small allotment on railway land over the back fence. Times, Sunday Times
In the summer they have parties on each allotment in turn, feasting on barbecues and getting sloshed on homemade wines.
Close up, it looks cheap and plasticky, like a broken old allotment greenhouse. Times, Sunday Times
The Secretary shall make reallotments under paragraphs (1) and (2) on such date or dates as the Secretary may fix.
The budget allotment for each county is below what is needed.
And I am assured, also, that the truth proposed in it inwraps the whole ground of any just expectation of the continuance of the presence of God amongst us, and his acceptation of our endeavours about the allotment and just disposal of our civil affairs. The Sermons of John Owen
For the current year, the allotment is over $20 millions. The Future of the Air Industry in Canada
For those of you who aren't British, allotments are pieces of land which are owned publicly and rented out to people to grow things on.
Councils are already planning to raise extra dosh at the margins by making us pay to park on Sundays and hiking charges for things such as allotments. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Fear, a tree surgeon, takes the children to work on the allotment at least twice a week.
They were very quick and abrupt in their actions, and their speech, in moments of hot discussion over the allotment of the choicer teeth, was truly a gabble. Page 9
The government would in turn pay farmers and landowners for quota allotments initially granted to limit production and support prices.
So they'll likely wind up kicking it down the road again with another short-term allotment. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
The wild cornflowers and sunflowers I grew on the allotment last year were a big hit: this year I'll be branching out with some retro dahlias.
Within minutes, though, we had collected an allotment of high-value supplies, including natural cold medication (with cardamom), decorative felt banners declaring the Krishna mantra, and a handwoven rug for my mother, available from a haber-dasher named Dinish, who gave us a good discount on account of my uncle. A World Apart: My uncle is a Hare Krishna spiritual master
Although the law of equalized field allotments destroyed badly had its fortuitousness, productive forces development and historical progress was its inevitable results.
Let us leave the allotment now, depart for ever, never to return.
Get an allotment and grow your own? Times, Sunday Times
The area is known as a hangout for youngsters and over the years the club has been burgled and the cricket pavilion and allotment sheds nearby have been torched.
He knew the fields and the woods, the wild creatures and the birds; he knew how to plough and to reap; he could keep an allotment full of vegetables all the year round; he understood a stable and a dairy, a paddock and sheepfold.
What they call the allotment of Providence is, often enough, the allotment of their own laziness or defective energy. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
And for many writers this allotment of time can seem altogether binding and a difficult task to stick to.
In recent years, the allotment of plots is speeding up in towns and on the outskirts of the bigger cities.
The settlement also seeks to resolve an ever-growing headache of the trust system that contributed to the government's problems -- especially in the pre-computer era -- in keeping track of the allotments: the original owners, most of whom died without leaving wills, have many heirs, which has "fractionalized" the ownership interests. Post-gazette.com - News
While specifics on how much in cuts would be included in the first, short-term allotment is unknown, Boehner is demanding that the size of the cuts meet or exceed the size of any debt limit increase. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years.
Allotments commonly became so fractionalized by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing.
Prohibition on sale of liquor "*** to any Indian to whom allotment of land has been made while the title to the same shall be held in trust by the Government ***," _held_ a police regulation infringing State powers, and not warranted by the commerce clause, article I, section 8, clause 3. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
An ambitious plan to convert two acres of unused allotments into recreational facilities was launched today.
On the allotment, the potatoes are in and already showing, and I am earthing up in case we get a frost. The first taste of spring – at last
Don't be more annoying than you already are with your new vbgf Dianne and the Delta Smelt and those idiots down in Kern County running the water company, who overplanted some almond trees, pretending they are missing their water allotment that never never actually got in the first place. Auburn Journal - Top Stories
If this is clean enough to go back into rivers surely we could buy a tanker for gardens or allotments. The Sun
Remove my approved, one-quart sized Ziploc bag containing its legal allotment of three-ounce containers of liquids and gels from the backpack. Boing Boing
Each nation was forced to accept individual allotments from a tribal land base, their nations were dissolved, and they were forced to become citizens of the new state.
The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met.
'(2) MINIMUM AMOUNT - For any fiscal year for which amounts appropriated for this subtitle exceed $50,000,000, the minimum allotment to each State under paragraph (1) shall be $75,000. Latest Articles
'(B) REALLOTMENT - If a State Commission does not apply for an allotment under this subsection for any fiscal year, or if the State Commission's application is not approved, the Corporation shall reallot the amount of the State Commission's allotment to the remaining State Commissions in accordance with subparagraph (A). Latest Articles
Most of the allotment holders have brought in their harvest of summer vegetables. Times, Sunday Times
Each astronaut is allowed a "bonus food allotment" to bring some of the comforts of home to outer space. NASA Watch: March 2009 Archives
All our kitchen waste - potato and carrot peelings, egg shells, left-over bits of fruit - goes in a neat little bin which, when full, we take to the allotment and tip into the compost pile.
It sold the upper leases to New Guinea Goldfields Limited in return for an allotment of 90,000 paid-up shares of $1 each in that company.
And when the City asked them to leave the sidewalk outside, they asked for an extra allotment of time, in order to be able to leave the site as neat and tidy as they found it.
Old men were weeding their allotments, or just staring at their plants growing. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
In the second stage the company will make a preferential allotment of 1.6 million shares to Star TV.
Some of these people kipped here, I'm sure of it," said the owner of an aerial and satellite dish installation firm who lives in one of a cluster of new houses built on former allotments opposite the scene of the fire. The Guardian World News
The notion that unequal social statuses and roles were allotted by nature and the gods or God made these allotments permanent and unalterable.
The view was of a hilly allotment site with sheds and a railway station, and slimy, furrowed mud.
The thefts have led John McCormack, 74, an allotment holder from Canterbury Avenue, Little Horton, to call for fences to be put up to keep the wreckers at bay.
Unsalaried county sheriffs in Mobile and throughout the South received sizable allotments from state coffers to house and feed prisoners.
There was the druid who explained religion, the brehon who dispensed justice, the brughaid or public hospitaller, the bard who sang the praises of his chief or urged his kinsman to battle; and each was an official and had his appointed allotment of land. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
From the standpoint of the ozone layer, there is a quite different way of responding to the allotment phenomenon.
It was a small detached residence built of redbrick and sandstone, between a plot of allotments and a row of shops. AFTERMATH
He also loved gardening and had an allotment near his home in Cambridge, where he produced most of the fruit and vegetables for his family. Times, Sunday Times
The duty-free allotment is per capita, not per stirpes. What stuff
They had hoped to establish a second hive on the allotment as their colony grew, but now say there is no way they will keep bees where they are clearly at risk.
It was chopped up and used on local allotments. The Sun
I want to get an allotment next year. Times, Sunday Times
And if you're driving, your duty-free allotment is less than if by air. Airport Customs and Weird Stuff in Bags
The allotment includes 12 fillies and eight colts, many with ties to American racing.
The woman and I walked down the road between the boneyard and the nuthouse this morning and headed into the garden allotments.
From the standpoint of the ozone layer, there is a quite different way of responding to the allotment phenomenon.
How can he get carrots to grow on his allotment? Times, Sunday Times
He keeps around 80 guinea pigs (also called cavies) on an allotment and feeds them beetroot - ‘the finest thing you can give them’ - which he grows himself.
Families were encouraged to turn gardens into allotments or use them to keep chickens. The Sun
Apparently they built houses over the allotments which used to be in the village but the neighbouring vill still has some.
The allotment of shares in the Estate Company, in satisfaction of the purchase price under the 1924 Contract, was made on 29th October 1924.
This is currently happening on the allotment, where foraging badgers have taken a liking to crops such as sweetcorn! British Blogs
In the second phase, the collection of tax from private car owners, registration of vehicles and allotment of numbers to the newly registered vehicles would be performed by the computers.
Laughing and joking, the dozen hungry, breakfastless girls hurried into their coats and veils, seized their pitifully small allotment of doughnuts and cookies, and boisterously climbed aboard the autos waiting for them. Tabitha's Vacation
They also note that D.C. programs could receive their full allotments by the time a spending bill weaves through Congress and reaches the President's desk.
For moderately active women, the average daily caloric allotment is anywhere from 1,800 to 2,200 depending on age and level of activeness. Grace Nasri: 10 Of The Fattiest Fast Foods
So the allotments have been left to rot - hence the eviction notices. The Sun
The grapevine has it that Lallan, a long-time aide to Nitish, had of late turned bitter to his "mentor" for the chief minister not listening to him in matter of transfer of senior government officials or allotment of party tickets. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years.
There is a thin strip of wasteland between the allotments and the depot which could be home to rats.
Obviously having an allotment and growing everything from lettuces to blackcurrants on it helps in terms of eating locally.
He's a car mechanic by trade but he practically lives at the allotments.
Tonight she cooks dishes inspired by allotments, including smoked trout tian, lamb shanks and strawberry sponges. Times, Sunday Times
Only the Saudi Royals have been as purposeful in conserving their allotment of black gold. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman on Europe
How many of these people rent the allotments or use the recreation ground regularly?
Stanley Spencer for his paintings of allotments, David Hockney for his draughtsmanship, and baritone and conductor Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for his attention to detail. Portrait of the artist: Thomas Allen, baritone
Calne Town Council is now looking for additional land to be used for allotments in the south of town.
With the road to Cape Tribulation now bituminised, settlement of the privately owned allotments within the Daintree is escalating.
You are right to blame the airlines, by the way: It is their design and their allotment of space that has turned coach accommodations into sardine cans for humans.
The town is a patchwork of houses and public buildings interspersed with allotments where fruit and vegetables are grown.
Management's response: The Administrator concurred, stating that the OCFO will demonstrate that appropriations available to be spent in FY 2006 can be traced from appropriations, to apportionments, to allotments, to commitments, and to obligations. NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: June 2010 Archives
It has been a record season for blossom and blooms but there has been scarcely a honey bee in my garden or allotment. Times, Sunday Times
Other skills, such as cultivating onions, giant leeks, melons, carnations, fuchsias and roses for competition, are honed on allotments.
Redistribution of representation in a legislative body, especially the periodic reallotment of U. S. congressional seats according to changes in the census figures as required by the Constitution.
The state would compensate the landlord for his lost dues or services to the tune of four-fifths of the capital value of the allotments he was ceding.
I hope he enjoys many more years on his allotment. The Sun
However the official conformation over the land allotment is awaited. Orissa to allot 100 acres to Infosys for 2nd campus
Although the no work no pay policy was in place throughout the strike, staff will also be compensated through extra payments in small allotments.
I am a columnist for the National Journal, which cosponsored the debate, but I've got to question the allotment. Matthew Dowd: Open Up the Debates
There was consternation at my local allotments after last week's frosts. Times, Sunday Times
It had 432 allotments of a quarter acre each and 88 suburban blocks ranging in size from five to eleven acres.
An interest in allotments is a phenomenon in itself, and anecdotal evidence suggests that visitors to allotments go to collect practical tips. Times, Sunday Times
Growing vegetables and flowers on an allotment is not an exact science and some years are better than others, John explains.
The council will examine ways in which fruit and vegetables from allotments could be distributed to deprived communities.
The Fin Review reported that there was heavy demand for the JB shares and many applicants had their requested allotments severely scaled back.
Some allotments have fallen into disrepair and are so undesirable that nobody wants them even when the council offers to clear them first.
The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met.
However, some parents felt the organisers needed to devote attention to details such as time management and allotment of space for parents to wait while their wards were taking the test.
The couple have grown vegetables on two allotments on the Pickards Field site behind their home for 11 years.
And, as I'm all for equality so my husband has to have somewhere to go as well, beyond the four walls of our house, I've rented an allotment - a little plot where he can go to do what men do.
Bears are being forced into smaller and smaller allotments bereft of seals and they have to find something else to eat, and that generally means each other. Times, Sunday Times
If these suggestions are implemented, even in phases, as financial allotments would allow, taking a bus will no longer be a dismissible option.
She has her own organic allotment in York and is looking forward to learning from the experts on her travels.
Some of them have nice gardens at home for flowers, and want the allotments to grow vegetables.
In their classic book The Allotment, David Crouch and Colin Ward point out that the very term contains a political position: "the word 'allotment' implies deference and allocation, qualities that indicate a relationship between the powerful and the powerless". The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The wild cornflowers and sunflowers I grew on the allotment last year were a big hit: this year I'll be branching out with some retro dahlias.
The council now needs to restore the allotments earmarked for the extension, which had been left untended in anticipation of planning consent.
I am tackling a fairly big, unrewarding and messy job this weekend: moving the compost bin in my garden down to my allotment.
If we start from an initial equality of resources brought about by the equal auction mechanism, individuals might then go on to use and invest and spend their resource allotments in various ways.
As newlyweds in the 1940s, the couple had rented a small allotment and grown potatoes, cabbages and salad crops, to help enrich their restricted diet amid post-war rationing.
Not only is the produce home-made, most is home-grown as well, coming straight from husband George's allotment a field away.
With fair weather, members of the public attending were able to sample and buy produce grown by the allotment tenants.
CAN I use chimney soot on my allotment? The Sun
An appeal was made to every man who had a farm, garden or allotment to plant more spuds to make up the shortfall and help the county support itself.
It has been a record season for blossom and blooms but there has been scarcely a honey bee in my garden or allotment. Times, Sunday Times
The entire course is laid out for you with resource listings, websites, time allotments, lists of materials needed, and detailed steps of instruction.
‘I've given up my allotment and the school job,’ said Mick, who is a keen gardener.
However, the contractors have continued their work of levelling the land for allotment of sites.
He looks like he should be planting onions in an allotment. Times, Sunday Times
I think the council could do more to prevent this kind of vandalism and dispel the air of neglect which pervades this allotment.
I think the narrow point really that we make is this, your Honours, and that is that there cannot be an advantage in circumstances where, if it be the case - and there was no finding as to that - that the contract of allotment was voidable.
The allotments are used for vegetables and fruits; these form the main bulk of our food.
Reallotments are made to other States in proportion to those State's original allotments for the fiscal year in which allotments originally were made.

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