Sentence examples for pound from inspiring English sources
The word "pound" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a unit of weight or money. For example, "I bought a pound of apples at the market."
noun
A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
But he said of the interventions by the chancellor, his Treasury deputy and the shadow chancellor: "Then in came Osborne, Alexander and Balls to say no way, never, ever we will not allow this, Scotland cannot have the pound.
Despite delivering well-aimed punches on Darling's lack of detail about future tax powers and Scotland's viability outside the UK, the first minister flailed on his "plan B" proposals for a currency now that the UK parties had vetoed a deal on the pound, relying on poorly judged quips about no campaigners worrying about aliens invading Scotland.
In a small black rucksack he carries all his possessions: a phone, an old toothbrush, a spare pair of underpants and trousers, and a packet of paracetamol, purchased in a pound shop, to stave off the aches and pains that come from living on the streets.
"Every pound spent in this way will be paid for by a pound saved permanently," he said.
Five pound notes do look remarkably like fish food, don't they?
There was comedy, music, dancing, fresh hog, pints for a pound, broth and bread and more hog.
From the million-pound apartments of Deansgate to the red-brick terraces of Moston, so many tens of thousands of people here didn't bother to vote at the last election that Lucy Powell, the incumbent Labour MP, was elected in a 2012 byelection with just 12% support in the lowest parliamentary poll turn out since 1945.
He admits he is not particularly commercially minded and that is, perhaps, why Re-Worked is not a million-pound business.
As a crude pound-per-job ratio, investing in homes looks a shrewder investment, with a new job created for every £300,000 invested compared to more than £1.5m invested in road building.
The loss of life came when the submarine set off a black powder charge at the end of a 200-pound spar, sinking the blockader.
Britain's most senior auditor, who set up a judge-led review into the "sweetheart" multimillion-pound tax deals between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and corporations, appeared to undermine the process before it began by telling the country's most senior tax official that the inquiry would find "nothing of substance".
