Sentence examples for a pound and a case of from inspiring English sources

Sacks of various dried chilies and beans ($6 a pound) and a case of fresh cheeses and Guatemalan cream face shelves overflowing with canned goods, oils, condiments and dried herbs and spices.

"But it's a case of fitting 20 pounds of programs into a 10-pound bag...

Someone who's finished a case of beer to themselves on Prince Edward Island will boast that they pounded "24 beer".

As the adage says, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound (or in this case, a ton) of cure.

A 40-pound case of wine probably has more than 20 pounds of glass in it.

The Overture, written last, pounds away with a high-drama case of nerves.

To Mr. Getzel, it's a classic case of penny wise, pound foolish.

This was a textbook case of criminals trying to circumvent the law for 400,000 pounds of lobster worth $4.6 million.

Maximum heavy metal adsorption happened in 70, 110 and 70 to 90 min (pounding time) for the cases of Miyaneh, Mashhad and Semnan zeolite, respectively.

And in the case of family cars that difference is currently several thousand pounds".

That's what the Factron Quattro case offers — well, that and about a pound of extra weight in your pocket.