The phrase "a pound in a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing weight, currency, or measurements, but it needs additional information to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "I found a pound in a bag of flour."
Alternatives: "a pound in total" or "a pound in weight."
But the markets are full of fruits and vegetables, even if there is grumbling over the prices, with cucumbers costing about 50 cents a pound and apples at 45 cents a pound in a country where the average wage is now about $40 a month.
As an alternative to eating cake while watching television, she turned to pistachios, and then ate a pound in a single sitting.
Shelled halves are $7 a pound, or $10 a pound in a gift tin; in the shell they are three pounds for $7.75.
It commands prices as high as Kobe's -- up to $60 a pound in a meat market, if you can find it.
Things that you can knock up in your sitting room or buy five for a pound in a blister pack by the newsagent's till are not good candidates for this: we don't try to regulate bleach and ammonia cleaners, even though mixing them together makes a potentially fatal poison gas.
The market will take a buoyant dollar in stride, even the commodity sector, where I'm underweighted in energy but inventory Freeport McMoRan, a play on copper holding above $3 a pound in a worldwide economy growing at a normalized 4.5% for years to come.
Uranium hit a record of nearly $140 a pound in June 2007, largely driven by hedge funds betting on future shortages.
A few years back, a 400-pound tiger was discovered in a high-rise in Harlem.
Everybody else can safely eat a half pound a week caught in New York City waters.
The 2.0XT's curb weight of 3,622 pounds reflects an increase of about 172 pounds, in part a result of bigger wheels and brakes.
The retail value of "all-fresh" USDA choice-grade beef jumped to a record $5.28 a pound in February, up from $4.91 the same time a year ago.
