Sentence examples for a pound for quality from inspiring English sources

"You tell Americans they need to spend $20 a pound for quality and they walk out and say 'Jeez, $20 a pound,' " Mr. Wajswol said.

Colombian coffee attracts a premium over other arabica coffee of $0.10 a pound for its quality, but its price, at around $0.76 a pound, is at its lowest for eight years.

Whale bacon costs about $150 a pound in gourmet food stores compared with $100 a pound for top-quality beef.

Though scrap dealers now pay about $1.20 a pound for high-quality copper, the nonferrous metal commanded $3 a pound a year ago, according to Bob D'Elia, the manager of Timpson Trading Corporation, in the Bronx.

I have never bought a fryer for much less than $20, which means about $6 per pound, compared with $2 or maybe $3 a pound for a high-quality chicken.

So how do you rank that on a pound-for-pound list?

"The almost 40 acres, on a pound-for-pound basis, is probably worth the reported $90 million".

Most coffee beans: $11.99 a pound for regular, $12.99 a pound for decaffeinated.

Prices range from $9 a pound for lavender oil to $10,500 a pound for ambergris.

Although the grapes are expensive (as much as $2.50 a pound), their quality is good.

Mr. Licata, 35, used coffee from Colombia grown on Finca La Primavera, a farm owned by Arnulfo Leguizamo, who won the 2011 Cup of Excellence with a coffee that sold for a little over $45 a pound when high-quality beans were trading for about $2.83 a pound.