Sentence examples for of a pound from inspiring English sources

But, because water is plentiful and diamonds are scarce, the marginal value of a pound of diamonds exceeds the marginal value of a pound of water.

spread 9,633 tons of salt; about a quarter of a pound to a square year.

Their blubbery white larvae may reach almost a quarter of a pound.

MY mother, Julia, wanted herring and a third of a pound of pastrami, sliced thin.

You can feed four people with only three-quarters of a pound.

Both fighters came in fractions of a pound under the 147lb limit at Thursday's weigh-in.

A book made with recycled paper consumes about two-thirds of a pound of minerals.

Instead of a pound of pasta for two to four people, make a half, or even a third of a pound.

"But you can buy a loaf in the supermarket for well north of a pound".

A quarter of a pound will give you the chew you are looking for.

Augustus (27 bc ad 14) based the coinage on the aureus of 1/42 of a pound of gold, equivalent to 25 denarii, each of 1/84 of a pound of silver, the metals being struck almost pure.