Sentence examples for for each ounce from inspiring English sources

Holders of gold could instead profit by buying silver in the market, receiving 16 ounces for each ounce of gold; they would then take 15 ounces of silver to the mint to be coined and accept payment in gold.

Discerning sports fans do not carry this dichotomy to the extreme of regarding their athletic heroes as pervasively deficient in mind, as if God had given each person just so much oomph, thus requiring that an ounce of intellect be rendered back for each ounce of muscle added on.

Eastern was fined $1,377,600, or $50 for each ounce of cocaine seized aboard the jets, Customs spokesman Edward Kittredge said from his Washington office.

They were told they could stop any time, and to take as much time as they liked, and that they would be paid a small amount for each ounce of the brew that they drank.

Add 5 cups of water for each ounce of sugar.

This would mean: Cook approximately 1 1/2 minutes for each ounce of meat.

In addition to the 46-cent rate for the first ounce of a letter, the cost for each additional ounce would go up a penny to 18 cents.

Along with a two-cent stamp increase, the cost for each additional ounce of first-class mail would climb to 18 cents from the current 17 cents.

Hill proposed a basic rate of one penny for each half ounce, calculating the "natural cost of distribution" to be slightly less than this.

There's a reason portion sizes have exploded: past a certain size, the fixed costs of selling each soda are paid for; each extra ounce is almost pure profit.

As Caragay weighs portions of beans on a digital scale — two grams for each finished ounce of coffee — Lindsay Wailes, a barista who has been here since the shop opened a year ago, wants to add a fourth method to our cupping.