Sentence examples for a single pound of from inspiring English sources
A single pound of clover honey represents the distilled nectar of some 8.7 million flowers.
There, it may take anywhere from 5 pounds to 15 pounds of wild fish to grow a single pound of Atlantic bluefin.
Mr. Roberts points out that a single pound of heroin be worth more than $200,000 after it is adulterated and on the streets.
No pipeline could dispose of all the by-products generated by the plant: a single pound of finished anthraquinone vat dye left behind a thousand gallons of wastewater.
It takes four pounds of small fish like sardines and anchovies to make a single pound of farmed salmon, a process that deprives humans of precious protein.
The consortium has yet to buy a single pound of rubber, but rubber prices last year climbed to their highest in at least seven years.
He had started to think of the men he was attracted to — "slim, pretty-faced guys who looked like they had a lot of money, who lived that West Hollywood lifestyle, who could eat whatever they wanted and never gain a single pound" — as the cause of his failures.
TO GO by the Domesday Book, the record of taxable lands produced for William the Conqueror in 1086, the manor of Drax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was not much of a place: six villagers, a priest and a value to its lord of a single pound.
"As a consultant, I've sat in on airline fuel committee monthly meetings to discuss how we could reduce the weight on each aircraft in a fleet by a single pound," said Andrew Kemmetmueller, the chief executive of Allegiant Systems, a company that is marketing FlyDesk, a technology that replaces heavy cockpit flight manuals with paperless iPad-based technology.
Industry executives said it typically took about three pounds of milk to make one pound of Greek-style yogurt, compared with the single pound of milk needed to make a pound of traditional yogurt.
The idea here is that by studying how every single pound of public money is spent in a locality it is possible to identify duplication, waste and a failure to get money to the front line.
