Sentence examples for around a kilo from inspiring English sources

Few people feel comfortable lugging around a kilo of pure gold bars.

These outlets have recently been joined by Rib Shakk, offering burgers, pulled pork, and the meaty "handle bar" beef rib – arrive hungry, as it weighs around a kilo.

A mule can easily carry up to five kilos in a specially made surfboard or suitcase, but can only swallow around a kilo.

Rhino horn can sell for around £60,000 a kilo - around twice the value of gold.

Cocaine sells for around $10,000-20,000 10,000-20,000rica.Plan Colombia will have no long-term effect on the flexibility or efficiency of America's illegal-drug industry.

A young man in his mid-20s with his three dogs chase after a wild rat, a delicacy for some people who can't afford to pay UShs 5,000 (around $2) for a kilo of meat.

But with demand for our crays vastly outstripping supply, prices these days hover around $150 a kilo, making even a serving for two worth around $80. Better value – not to mention more fun – are smaller freshwater crayfish, known as yabbies.

Before last spring, this price was around 68p a kilo.

Ivory fell from around $300 a kilo to just $7 a kilo, bringing poaching almost to a halt.

That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

Pork producers in China are now getting around 220p a kilo, ahead of most premium producers in the UK.