Example sentences of "[det] a pound of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |
| 2 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 3 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 4 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 5 | Witches ' Stew One pound of stinging nettles , five spiders found dead , half a pound of mouldy grass , two small sticks , seven old banana skins , half a pound of leaves , nine witches ' toenails , three bats ' wings , seven cockroaches , eight pigeons ' feathers and the fur from a wire-haired fox terrier , all stewed together on Friday the thirteenth from 12 noon to 12 midnight . |
| 6 | Witches ' Stew One pound of stinging nettles , five spiders found dead , half a pound of mouldy grass , two small sticks , seven old banana skins , half a pound of leaves , nine witches ' toenails , three bats ' wings , seven cockroaches , eight pigeons ' feathers and the fur from a wire-haired fox terrier , all stewed together on Friday the thirteenth from 12 noon to 12 midnight . |
| 7 | An elderly person should try to eat approximately half a pound of protein in some form in her diet every day . |
| 8 | The roofing felt was eventually fixed with a gallon of disgusting adhesive and half a pound of nails , which just about completed the major work , everything else could be classified as ‘ off jobs ’ to finish off . |
| 9 | ‘ There must be about half a pound of sugar in that pot . ’ |
| 10 | On the way back from the cemetery he visited Sainsbury 's and bought half a pound of fillet steak , the materials for a green salad and a bottle of champagne . |
| 11 | On December 17th 1803 the house committee ordered that each patient and servant belonging to the House should have ‘ one pound of Plumb Pudding and half a pound of Beef ’ for dinner on Christmas Day . |
| 12 | " Stew very slowly one quart of green gooseberries with half a pound of white sugar and enough water to prevent fruit from burning . |
| 13 | It included forty cigarettes , a white sliced loaf , tea bags , two lamb chops , half a pound of liver , pork for Sunday dinner , two tins of peas , two pints of sterilised milk — " Not because I like it , but because it lasts longer , " he said . |
| 14 | Butter provides 200 calories per ounce ; half a pound of butter is almost a day 's calorie intake for an adult female ! |
| 15 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 16 | As one mother in Ritchie 's study of families on benefit noted : ‘ I buy half a pound of stewing meat or something and give that to Sid and the kiddies and then I just have the gravy — before I used to buy soya things and substitutes to meat but I ca n't afford that now ’ ( Ritchie , 1990 , p. 35 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ The truth is , ’ Rosa began , in her most teacherly tones , ‘ that when you want a man , and you look around and you ca n't see the one you like , you go into the kitchen , and you take a pound of the whitest flour , a pound of the whitest sugar , a pound of the most refined fat you have , and a flask of rosewater and a handful of raisins , another of currants , half a pound of almonds ground to paste , a squeeze of lemon-juice , a pinch of cinnamon and a sprinkle of powdered clove . |
| 18 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 19 | For example , one ounce of butter or margarine contains as many calories as half a pound of potatoes . |
| 20 | Marmite , heels , three shirts , half a pound of Plectra , and some product called Syntax , which I now envisage as being like a health-food called Bemax that my father used to sprinkle over his breakfast cereal . |
| 21 | Pound of flour and half a pound of marg , and an onion . |
| 22 | Can you get a pound of f er self raising flour , half a pound of margarine please . |
| 23 | Half a pound of margarine and a packet of flour ? |
| 24 | And , half a pound of cheese . |
| 25 | Half a pound of cheese ? |
| 26 | She said he had a half a pound of raw liver yesterday mum . |
| 27 | half a pound of grapes |