Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said he would bring the mince in to do the , like give them the money for a pound of mince and a packet of |
| 2 | His arrival in Edinburgh yesterday to launch the Scottish Youth Cricket Foundation , prompted the raising of a pound for every run he scored in that memorable season . |
| 3 | Cut into four pieces and roll each one to the thickness of a pound coin . |
| 4 | The explosion of a pound of high explosive in this wardroom would kill us all . |
| 5 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 6 | Laura Ashley bought substantial amounts of tweed from Cambrian Mill and although they paid the regular price , the company drew upon its charity budget to subsidize this at the rate of a pound per metre . |
| 7 | Keeper David Coles was once with Newport , while barely 12 months ago free transfer midfielder Wayne Dobbins was the subject of a Pounds 25,000 move from West Brom to Torquay . |
| 8 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 9 | In breaking it up , he segregates those disturbing causes , whose wanderings happen to be inconvenient , for the time in a pound called Ceteris Paribus . |
| 10 | The coin was meant to be worth a pound , but for all normal purposes the value of a pound was twenty silver shillings each weighing one-fifth of an ounce , and the golden guinea went to a premium above this . |
| 11 | It is dubbed the BTU tax because energy can be measured in British Thermal Units : a BTU is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit . |