Sentence examples for containing an ounce of from inspiring English sources

21, 1980, eager to pay more than $900 apiece for coins containing an ounce of gold.

Some customers were there to lock in profits, selling bullion coins containing an ounce of gold that they had bought five years earlier when gold traded under $350.

In 1998, a polycarbonate capsule containing an ounce of his ashes was put aboard NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft before its launch into lunar orbit.

A field in West Yorkshire yielded five fabulous pieces of gold, assumed to be a Viking's loot, including a massive ring containing an ounce of pure gold.

Also seized were three cigars and two plastic baggies containing an ounce and a half of marijuana.

After a while, Niarchostook out a bag containing about an ounce of cocaine and, frustrated with the dampness of the drug, placed a lump in the microwave.

The newest coins, slightly more than an inch in diameter, use the smaller, thicker blanks rejected in 1907, are dated MMIX (2009), and contain exactly an ounce of 24-karat gold.

But when he arrived, he found the children eating a thin soup that contained maybe an ounce of beans for each of them, plus half a piece of bread.

What followed instead were a series of songs on a series of albums that contained not an ounce of Live Forever's single-minded and beautifully expressed message, with Oasis's final studio album, 2008's Dig Out Your Soul, a mediocre last throw from a band who knew the end was nigh.

Like coins, they maintain the same circular shape and usually contain a troy ounce of silver (1/12 of a pound).

A standard drink, like a bottle of beer, contains a half-ounce of pure alcohol, Mr. McGee said.