Contributing to farmers' distress is the continuing fragmentation of land with average land-holding size getting halved from the beginning of the 1960s.
而土地的分散更导致了农民的困苦，私有土地的平均面积比60年代早期减少了一半。
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As a result, planes were kept in a holding pattern, sometimes three or four miles apart, until they were cleared to land.
结果，飞机均被保持在等待航线状态，有时相隔三四英里，直至它们得到降落指示。
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If there is another citizen D either holding a dollar or another piece of land but refrain to take part in the game.