Sentence examples for boxes of bananas from inspiring English sources
"We jumped in the school minibus and straightaway they gave us 27 boxes of bananas and ten boxes of cucumbers".
When I was very little, I was proud of the way he sent the produce manager scurrying to the back room for boxes of bananas past their prime.
Traders have donated "boxes and boxes of bananas," she said, prompting city hall to set up a distribution network to deliver free fruit to schools, orphanages and government offices.
Chiquita has 18,000 boxes of bananas in a refrigerated dockside warehouse at Long Beach, Calif., and an additional 180,000 boxes aboard a ship scheduled to pull into Long Beach on Sunday evening.
More than £11m worth of the drug turned up in boxes of bananas delivered to 13 stores in Berlin.
To fellow dockworkers, Cheryl Olivas is the Banana Queen, a title bestowed for the many hours she has toiled at one of the most physically demanding jobs on the waterfront--slinging 40-pound boxes of bananas from the hatches of ships.
Currently a box of bananas sells for about $10.
A box of bananas, which used to be about $12, is now about $25.
Each 43-pound box of bananas purchased here by exporters for $2 or $3 goes for $25 in the United States or Europe.
The Fairtrade model offers a premium of a dollar for each box of bananas, on top of the price, which is invested democratically back into the community.
Salvatore Mancuso, a leader of illegal paramilitary groups, which massacred thousands of people, said each company paid his men one US cent for each box of bananas they exported.
