Examples of allotment

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Therefore, the allotments were usually situated not far from the business.
The aid budget was calculated by pooling the separate allotments of up to 18 agencies.
In his visits to and walks around allotments, public housing projects and wasteland, he took photographs, drew maps and interviewed inhabitants or users of space.
In the longer term costs could be met by a proportional levy on all those receiving allotments.
If outlays threaten to exceed the threshold, allotments must be reduced and/or enrollments curtailed unless the cap is expressly overridden by legislative action.
Most commonly potatoes, sometimes carrots, beetroots, onions, garlic and marrows were cultivated in the allotments, and in the south melons and watermelons.
In 1977, legislation changed the acreage base for wheat from historical allotments to a percentage of current plantings.
Concern for this issue stems from a range of different interests, from allotments to aesthetics.
The new allotments were independent of the earlier allotments.
Such allotments may range from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of hectares.
Since land allotments would be carved out of land that belonged to the gentry, serfs would have to pay for them.
Here the poor quality of the maps and the cumbersome system for distinguishing allotments may have added to the difficulties experienced in this enclosure.
As a rule, it was spouses of working age who cultivated the allotments.
Collective allotments were typical for small towns and workers' settlements.
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