Sentence examples for pound of wheat from inspiring English sources

In the past, two parties would haggle over a pound of wheat.

Each prisoner is served a daily diet that must include about a pound of wheat or rice, three ounces of lentils and nine ounces of vegetables.

I have been baking bread for more than thirty years, and there are few things I find more satisfying than turning a pound of wheat into something that I can feed to my friends.

Eating meat is unhealthy and grossly inefficient (you need up to 100 times more water to produce a pound of beef than you do a pound of wheat. A cow is essentially a giant sponge. Although if it were a sponge, it would be very eco-friendly. This is getting complicated. Let's leave it).

A primer: The earth may very well be running out of clean water, and by some estimates it takes 100 times more water (up to 2,500 gallons) to produce a pound of grain-fed beef than it does to produce a pound of wheat.

Shamrock Farms, Stanfield, Arizona – Including all the water needed to grow feed and grass for grazing, it takes about 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef – 100 times more than what is needed to produce a pound of wheat. .

Every sack held 110 pounds of wheat.

Its trucks are carrying about 250 million pounds of wheat across the Khyber Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Each family is given 4.4 pounds of wheat and 1.4 ounces of sugar a week.

Each day he is paid two pounds of wheat and a teaspoon of tea.

Even this seems certain to fall far short of the costs: the cash payouts, a package of supplies that includes plastic groundsheets, 330 pounds of wheat for every family, shelter materials and tools.