Sentence examples for instead of the pound from inspiring English sources

It was standard to use the marco, defined as 8 ounces, instead of the pound.

The dealer, Michael Rafael Suarez, is pleading guilty to fraud charges after selling the couple a $2,800 bag of dirty socks instead of the pound they'd asked for, the Daily Telegram reports.

To unify all weight systems used by apothecaries, the Irish pharmacopœia of 1850 introduced a new variant of the apothecaries' system which subdivided a new apothecaries' pound of 12 avoirdupois ounces instead of the troy pound.

Then, instead of calling the pound, he took the scared dog in his patrol car and later adopted him.

According to the LA Times, "[They failed] to deduct the weight of containers when ringing up fresh food, putting smaller amounts into packages than the weight stated on the label, and selling items by the piece instead of by the pound, as required by law".

The Ford Motor Company recommended tonight that owners of Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles inflate their tires to 30 pounds per square inch, instead of the 26 pounds that the automaker has recommended for the last 10 years.

Instead of the big pounding chords and soaring melodies of the First Concerto, Tchaikovsky wrote a more tightly intertwined dialogue here.

While Rubio has a built-in infrastructure in the state, and is well-known on Spanish-language media, his campaign suffers as it has elsewhere from its reliance on television appearances and made-for-TV rallies instead of the pavement-pounding hard work of turning out the vote.

Marines there received only about 10percentnt of their usual daily letter mail‐200 pounds instead of the usual 2,000 pounds.

A draw previous to Saturday's tournament determined that the starting weight for the first round would be at 195 pounds instead of the usual 106-pound division.

The card is slightly underclocked, using a new design spec NVIDIA is calling Max Q, which allows a thinner, lighter chassis to be used with a top-tier card, instead of the usual seven pound metal behemoths we're used to seeing.