Sentence examples for one or two pounds from inspiring English sources

To reach the threshold, as a Guardian analysis showed, tenants have to earn only one or two pounds more a week than the lowest earning 10% of Britons.

In certain situations, very weak concentrations of DDT or malathion are used (one or two ounces per hundred gallons, in contrast to the usual one or two pounds per hundred gallons).

And it would take an even freakier metabolism to drop only one or two pounds after getting down to a diet of 1,400 to 1,500 calories a day — as the women on the "low-fat" regimen claimed to have done.

One or two pounds is nothing to me.

The suspects were later found in a car with a drone and a rolled-up packet containing one or two pounds of tobacco.

I read about "Lollipop heads" as my own weight, stabilized, dipped, increased by one or two pounds, and then repeated the cycle.

His business requires him to be accompanied by a tremendous clutter of equipment — one or two thousand pounds of motion-picture cameras, extra lenses, big lights and reflectors, power converters, great coils of cable, bulky boxes of film, microphone hookups, and sound-recording equipment.

An apricot tree produces not just one or two manageable pounds of fruit: it produces more apricots than a single person could eat in a lifetime.

"We buy 200 to 300 pounds at a time," said Carol Herman, the owner of Rent A Chef. "One lady buys four or five pounds a week from us".

"Large chocolate companies had pre-set deals already, and small ones only needed one or two [155-pound] bags at a time.

"If I only eat three meals, I'll lose four or five pounds in one day".