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How to use pound in a sentence

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For a pound and thirty pence I had acquired a territory greater in surface area than the Palatinate of the Rhine.
Indeed, equestrianism is a multi-million pound industry which plays an important role in the rural economy and tourism.
The Northern Irish construction company has been awarded a multimillion pound contract.
They cache extra acorns in holes in the ground, and pound on hard nuts with their bills to break them open.
Aunt Neal had already began pouring me a bowl of oatmeal, putting sausage on a plate and shoveling a pound of bacon in the same saucer.
Sometimes, they are very generous and give the hall porter a pound coin as gratuity.
The biggest food store in Southend town centre will shut for a week while a multi-million pound revamp is completed.
He sold the business to Nationwide in 1997 in an undisclosed multimillion pound deal before taking time out to travel and ski.
A multi-million pound chance to improve run-down housing areas in Rochdale was unveiled by the Government on Wednesday.
As part of a bag approaching one hundred pounds Val had two Crucians weighing three twelve and four pound exactly, lovely jubbly!
We had a nice, crusty baguette and one of the guests brought an orange pound cake served with strawberries and whipped cream for dessert.
I gave him some of that pound cake you sent in my lunch pail, and he said it was the best thing he'd had in a long time, Mama.
Organic wheat here sells for 11.6 cents a pound, compared with about 3.3 cents a pound for conventionally grown wheat.
Screaming guitars and tortured wails were the tools used to pound the passion into each song and the listeners into dejected submission.
Speculative onslaughts on the pound were resisted only at the expense of deflationary domestic policies.
For a pound a head and three cups of tea each what better value could we find?
If your biceps feel absolutely fantastic, grab some heavy dumb-bells and pound them.
I tend to pick out the one pound coins and the silver to buy my lunch the next day so generally it's just the coppers that are left.
The researchers found that, pound for pound, the Tasmanian devil is the most powerful biter alive today.
Quite simply, there is more profit in a bag of crisps than in a pound of potatoes.
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Soon after, she felt another something hard smack into her skull, making her head pound and spin.
And he has grandiose plans for a multi-million pound visitor centre that would be the last word in UFOs and the paranormal.
He ended up getting punched in the jaw and slam-dunked with a twelve pound turkey.
I meekly stuffed the meter with pound coins to the maximum permitted amount and we commenced shifting boxes and bags.
If I give you a pound of baloney, a loaf of bread and a table to eat it on, I don't hold you anymore.
In January 2002 the euro replaced the Irish punt, which in 1928 had replaced the British pound before it.
In New England, scrod are very young cod or haddock, weighing only a pound or two.
Their daughter is not just pleasantly plump or carrying a pound or two of excess puppy fat, she is morbidly obese.
You go out, pound 26 miles like a zombie and you come back and you have something to drink and have a lie-down.
A property tycoon today flagged up a series of multi-million pound projects designed to spark a business boom in Monks Cross.
Plans for a multi-million pound revamp of Beckenham Hospital are being unveiled.
He refused to elaborate but agreed the plant could close if a multimillion pound deal was not struck very soon.
The looks of horror I elicited from people at the bus stop as I attempted to ask them if they had any change for a two pound coin was striking.
When a betable edge between their results and the line is seen, their movers or beards pound the books.
Her eyes wouldn't open and she heard the steady thump of her heart pound in her ears, signaling she was still alive.
At Maastricht we won the opt-out which kept the pound and the opt-out from the social chapter, which labour threw away.
A bit of high-touch consulting, a few long lunches and hey presto a fifty thousand pound fee.
Have you tried our half pound pub burger or charbroiled marinated chicken sandwich?
Who knows, maybe I'll find a little London lad to pound out some dictation for me.
Some would prefer politics to stick to safer ground, forever debating whether we should add or subtract a penny in the pound from income tax.
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The multi-million pound scheme involves a brick and glass hotel with more than 100 bedrooms, above a ground-floor restaurant.
The former Manchester council overspill estate has been transformed thanks to multi-million pound investment and the work of local people.
From the left side of the column the entire forest opened up in fire and smoke, six pound cannons pouring grapeshot into the Loyalist ranks.
The product is available in shaker jars, cups and bags ranging from 1 pound to 5 pounds.
The aromas of chocolate-chip cookies, pound cake and lemon chess pie complete the feel-good picture.
Add about one-half pound of superphosphate to each bushel of organic material applied to the soil.
Lunch might be taken on a 2lb steak, a pound of potatoes, three green vegetables and a milk pudding.
Crashing chords pound out from the piano line while the clarinet speaks in a tonal, coolly cerebral mode.
And at almost a pound a bottle, Dasani tap water was more expensive than many natural mineral waters.
A world record meteorite, a 1400 pound pallasite, has been found near Brenham, Kansas by professional meteorite hunter Steve Arnold.
So we pound our stake in the ground of the side we've chosen, put out our sign, and shout and holler with the rest.
They sent me a two pound box of chocolates for my birthday, which is later this week.
He got friendly with the cooks at the dorm eatery and told them if they made him a pound of bacon every morning, he'd choke it down every day.
I'll take anything, even old pennies from the pound shilling and pence era.
Some fishing methods engender little bycatch, whereas others, like trawling for shrimp, kill up to 10 pounds of fish per pound of shrimp.
Competition for the young pound is hotting up despite the disappointingly slow start to the government's child trust fund scheme.
They stopped at the entrance to the bus and the young lady asked if I could change a twenty pound note for two ten pound notes.
Plans to give Bolton's historic Market Hall a multi-million pound facelift were being considered by councillors today.
A sudden collapse of the pound could lead to equal and opposite problems, such as galloping inflation.
After a stint at the Victorian diggings he returned more than a pound of gold to his brother Patrick with the first Gold Escort.
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As I plotted the epic crash of this colossus, my heart began to pound in anticipation.
The same monotonous footsteps pound the floor, and finally stop moving when they approach a doorway.
Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings.
You could fry up and then pound a mix of mustard and cumin seeds, curry leaves, fresh ginger and chilli to make the spice base of fresh chutneys.
Opinion polls show more than half of Britons are opposed to ditching the pound although an increasing number feel the switch is inevitable.
Roman remains north of York may force a rethink of plans for the city's fifth park-and-ride site and a new multi-million pound business park.
As much as a pound of coagulated blood was noted to have been shed by individual flagellants during these paschal ceremonies.
In New Zealand they weigh in at less than half a pound but can devour any prey as large as they are and eat eggs two-and-a-half inches long.
It is also offering a derivative with a 6.5 pound high-explosive payloads for use against aircraft, surface ships and other targets.
Because they are pound dogs they are not really pedigreed, but the hunting breeds are good.
I went round to my local pound shop and bought a pack of 100 wooden clothes pegs.
Part of the installation process was to pound some pegs into the ground to secure the swing set.
If you're serving bone-in items such as ribs or Peking duck, plan on a pound for every two guests.
The shepherds pound the ground with their staffs and curse the sheep as they corral them into makeshift pens.
This 1 pound mushroom anchor is a good anchor for small gang rigs or larger decoys such as goose or sea ducks.
As a passionate believer that we should keep the pound and stay out of the euro, I am allowed a short gloat.
In the background, as I pound away at the keys on my computer, the second half of the Sunday-night Bucs-Bears game has just begun.
I figured that in for a penny, in for a pound that I could get the book to more people if I went public with it and there is a risk.
Some sift sand from millet, while others pound the grain into a coarse flour.
I believe it also can be downsized without affecting the meaningful nature of its tasks, but we ought not to be penny wise and pound foolish.
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Are local self-bodies exercising their right to be penny wise and pound foolish?
That is surely penny wise and pound foolish, a recipe for the persistence of costly, revolving-door institutionalization of troubled kids.
It is very much a case of penny wise and pound foolish, if the Government persists in its present anti-forestry policy.
But gasoline combustion also results in over a pound of water for every pound of fuel burned.
I heard the rhythm of footsteps pound down the hallway, coming ever closer to the holding cells.
In 1997 the Irish punt rose in the slipstream of the British pound to its upper limits against all other currencies.
It's not creating a level playing field to penalise an exchange because it offers better value for a punter's betting pound than a bookmaker.
Every night commercial television is littered with multi-million pound advertisements for pension companies.
If a pound was collected every time a promoter emerged without a proper mantle then world poverty could be eradicated immediately.
With Britain's population ageing, the power of the grey pound is constantly on the increase.
I see the droplets soak into the stale, brown grass, and I watch it pound the drooping daylilies and roses.
Then he had vanished entirely, and she was left with her heart beginning to pound like a bell's death knell.
One pound of meat makes nine cups of jambalaya or dirty rice in less than 30 minutes.
The multi-million pound investment would come by attracting upmarket shops, housing and tourism to the town.
Classic summer pudding is made with stale bread but it is much better made with store bought pound cake or brioche.
My view is that the pound moves more closely with the dollar than with the euro.
The hall is part of a multi-million pound revamp of leisure facilities in the borough.
Under the previously allowed four pound per acre rate of chlorpyrifos, the ADI was right at the one microgram per kilogram a day limit.
His project was a burned pound cake, but it looked burnt and the lemon topping was watered down.
It's a mistake for journalists to come into this business because they see pound signs.
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He moved my hands and made the sticks pound against the drumheads and beat out a rhythm.
In terms of smoking, a 20 pound turkey will take 10-14 hours while larger turkeys greatly increase food contamination risks.
He knows firsthand how cornering a Gentile for his flesh, be it a pound or, in the case of the footballer, a centigram, can backfire.
In order to make posts easier for users to search for, tweets can include a hashtag, or pound symbol.
I felt my heart begin to pound a bit faster, and took a hasty drink from my water glass to dispel my anxiety.
He hadn't a stitch of sportswear to pound the streets when he took the plunge to enter the New York City Marathon.
To bake a fresh 6 to 7 pound pumpkin, halve the pumpkin crosswise and scoop out the seeds and strings.
The cedi dropped 12 cents against the U.S. dollar and 83 cents against the pound at the end of April.
A micropig eats maybe one pound of feed a day, and may weigh 60 pounds fully grown.
The waves pound the coast hard enough to send a tremor through the cindery sand.
Besides the two ball peens, a one pound scaling hammer and a ten and a half pound handled sledge were offered.
Armed with 1,000 pound high explosive and cluster bomb warheads, the missiles have ranges of 500-700 kilometers.
The fall-off in demand, especially among American collectors, paves the way for an influx of new buyers for whom the strong pound is an ally.
He added that, as around 70 per cent of the congregation are retired, every pound put into church collections is a hard-earned one.
He has thrown the 100-something pound girl over a five-foot wall with one hand, pausing only to pistol-whip her.
To prepare the surface, pound in any raised nails, fill holes with wood filler, and sand.
Lancaster City Council has deemed the plans for the proposed multi-million pound structure invalid.
The correct nutrition facts are now on all one pound containers being produced.
Firstly because he is a true competitor and, secondly, because he likes the feeling of newly-won, crisp pound notes in his pocket.
He could feel the anger swelling up and beginning to pound through his veins.
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A choice of chewy dried figs, juicy strawberries, and buttery pound cake awaits within the sweet version.
Does a pound sign, followed by the numeral 1 and nine consecutive noughts give rational human beings the right to turn into irrational moaners?
Cashmere jumpers have slashed sleeves with buttons, while dollar and pound signs add a humorous touch to classic knitwear.
Within a few hours the steps will become a traffic jam of joggers as thousands of runners pound out their daily practice.
She felt her heart pound as she felt joy and happiness for the first time in months.
Short line rails are today being threatened due to the use of new, heavier 286,000 pound railcars that have become the industry standard.
She used to sort through five pound bags of raisins examining each one for stems.
Hearing the loud whack, he began to pound fist after fist, continuing long after his hands became white and tingly.
The local shop lifters have just been round selling turkey for a pound a pack.
This glaze also will work on a pan of brownies, a pound cake, even a fruit tart.
As the protesters sat on the floor the police line of 80 or more officers would pound forward trammelling the seated protesters.
A pound of baking soda yields 10.6 ounces of anhydrous sodium carbonate, which is equivalent to 12.4 ounces of monohydrated sodium carbonate.
If a vessel was gripped in the jaws of a south-west gale here, it would be driven onto the beach for the waves to pound to pieces.
Whether you want to drown in melodic pop or pound out your sorrows to some '80s metal, there's a band or artist ready to help.
The pipelaying project is part of a multi-million pound programme of improvements to replace old metal gas mains with new plastic pipes.
Compared to the hi-tech wizardry, and incomprehensibility, of many of today's multi-million pound car commercials, it sounds a little twee.
It's high tide, so the sea in its surfeit doesn't pound itself against the shore but sends its waves softly like gulls gliding.
If I'd have been a real man, I would have bought one of the six pound pie beasts, I would not have wolfed my snack in private.
Auto engines had much more horsepower per pound of weight, and though physically larger, they did not weigh much more than the make-and-breaks.
When you take a 20-minute sauna or steam bath, your body temperature rises to about 104 degrees, and you sweat out one pound of water.
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You find a space and trip along to the ticket machine, only to discover that you have come out with only a ten pound note and 26p in coppers.
As versatile as a pound of mince, it is also one of the easiest meats to cook.
Cattle were making between 80 to 84p per lb at the moment but a pound of mincemeat in the butchers cost more.
I had a couple of bites after this that produced a three pound ghost carp and a slightly bigger mirror carp.
In total 19 financial firms in the UK have backed the fund and pledged to match their employees' donations, pound for pound.
For every pound that the company spends, it only makes 10p worth of extra sales.
What on earth can there be in kranskies that one might crave, apart from half a pound of nitrates?
Your financial institution will have arrangements in place for refunding stamp duty on unused pound cheques that you return.
A pound might not sound like much, but it will buy you a cup of tea in a tea room and that is what tourists would rather spend their money on.
In the metric system, there are 454 grams to a pound but there are 7,000 grains.
I wish you would let Bass get me one pound of pepper, and two yards of black calamanco for shoes.
And who would go back to 12 pence to one shilling, 20 shillings to a pound with no calculator?
But by the time they had entered the pound where the narrowboats were moored, the swan was nowhere to be seen.
The ground is getting hard, and it's become increasingly difficult to dig, to even pound these stakes into the ground.
To train for schlepping the 200-plus pound sledges, he suggests that clients drag a string of tractor tires behind them on their favorite hikes.
There are songs about fishing, planting, and how to use a hoe, paddle a canoe, or pound manioc with a giant mortar and pestle.
They also chose to pull all existing dollar bills and pound notes from circulation to force their people to use the coins.
Throughout that month, the Bank of England spent billions ensuring the pound stayed within its ERM band.
Gold nuggets by the pound were available from both the Lena River area of Russia as well as from Western Australia and Victoria, Australia.
In the first container she placed 1 pound of asparagus that she trimmed and steamed until tender and allowed to cool.
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Her stalwart support has seen her raise more than a thousand pound every year for the society.
The level of British migration is at its highest since New Zealand ended a policy of assisted passages for settlers known as ten pound poms.
Before arriving in Australia as one of the last of the ten pound poms, I grew up in a typical English industrial city.
In 1961, he became one of the ten pound poms who travelled to Australia on a government-subsidized boat passage.
He arrived in the great sunburned land down under as what was known then as a ten pound pom.
He spoke of poetry and emigration to New Zealand as a ten pound pom, his discovery of marching girls, local verse, and suburban dreariness.
Today, the ten pound poms looking for a new life have been replaced by international sophisticates sipping martinis in this stunningly lit bar.
Her family left Wales as ten pound poms when she was struck down with pneumonia at the age of five.
The ten pound poms left in their droves for Australia, enticed by subsidised travel and settlement.
In Britain we pound them into marzipan and flavour Bakewell tart with their essence.
A strong boom is needed to carry the pound or more of lead that your sinker is going to weigh.
The liter and its fractions have vanquished quarts, pints, and gallons, while the pound is still holding its own in things such as produce.
As part of the deal to constitutionalize rights in the '82 Constitution Act, the provinces extracted a pound of flesh from the Feds.
The waterspout churned across the river, and I saw waves ten feet high pound the marina when the rope got to within a few hundred feet of it.
The US forces destroyed two houses from which they were taking fire, one being destroyed by a 500 pound bomb from a warplane they called in.
Watch this space to see how the three hundred and fifty pound camera compares with the thirty quid webcam.
Well, how many plumbers can say they've had twenty pound notes stuffed down their smalls by bored city types?
For instance, 1 pound of seed potatoes of a full-sized type produces 8 to 12 pounds of tubers.
You can lose about 1 pound every two months by achieving a caloric deficit of only 60-100 calories a day.
It turned out that the 400 pound box was safe, but it crushed the jump seats in his mom's car.
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The plunge of the rand against the dollar and the pound is going to worsen.
The multi-million pound project would keep high-water river levels, even at low tide.
A little-known singer-songwriter has secured a multi-million pound record deal and television advertising contract.
His kisses were lingering and affectionate, making my heart pound for a moment.
The window pane began to rattle as the rain began to pound from the heavens.
Hanmari gave a roar of outrage and then proceeded to pound on the door down, or at least knock hard enough to rattle the hinges.
After that, it is a complete and utter lottery, but Spurs are a good cup team, and definitely worth a pound or two.
Possums can munch half a pound of foliage a day and prey on the eggs and chicks of endangered birds like the kokako, kereru, and kiwi.
Thai food is significantly less meat-intensive than American, and half a pound of meat is enough to serve four.
At 7.5 pounds, it is approximately a quarter pound heavier than standard Featherweights.
Alis felt her heart pound loudly against her chest, her breathing coming in soft but quick breaths.
If you really need a number, a healthy amount of weight to lose is about one pound per week.
It can be made in different sizes to contain a fraction of an ounce to a quarter pound or more of liquid, gel, or cream.
Consequently, an all-wheel-steer loader can carry more payload per pound of machine than an articulated loader without tipping.
He explained further that normally one would design for a 40 pound per square foot live load, and for whatever the dead load would actually be.
Place two potatoes, one lobster, a half pound clams and one ear corn on each piece.
The businessman behind multi-million pound plans to demolish and redevelop K Village has not yet given up on the site.
In my defense I didn't know wild hogs were nowhere near as tough as a 150 pound man.
The company blamed the strong pound and the high price of wood pulp for its current difficulties.
Although criticisms of the multi-million pound scheme came thick and fast, the experts were on hand to answer questions.
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At that time fish was often accompanied by bread, up to a whopping quarter of a pound of it.
A week-long exhibition showing proposals for the multi-million pound regeneration of the rundown area was launched yesterday in Park Library.
The multi-million pound regeneration of a deprived area of Rochdale could lead to financial ruin and homelessness.
If you absolutely can't produce a pound sign, it has become conventional in computing circles to use the hash mark instead.
Three people have been jailed for a total of 10 years for their involvement in a multi-million pound software counterfeiting ring.
When you see pound or something pound followed by letters on Twitter, it means there's a hashtag.
The pound in a pensioner's pocket or purse has become the latest point of contention for politicians.
Dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and dollar coins are all worth more per pound than the nickel.
The three pound line is necessary as I am fishing for very big roach in fast flowing water.
It's the best set of opinions I've seen yet on the current attempts to pound the populace into digital serfdom.
If you're making your own pound cake, brownies or angel food cake for the chocolate fondue, get baking.
Each pound of fat your body stores represents 3,500 calories of unused energy.
I get exactly 316 grams of protein a day, a bit more than 1 gram per pound of bodyweight off-season.
Dessert is fresh fruit, pound cake with lemon curd and cream, and assorted sweet bars.
No matter what you call it, BitCoin, dollar, pound or peso, it's all gone virtual and it's all been stolen before.
One troy pound weighs 373.25 g and is subdivided into troy ounces, pennyweight and grains.
Economists say the current exchange rate of around 1.4 euros to the pound is about the right price at which sterling should convert to the euro.
Britain has been skittish in the extreme about abandoning pound sterling for the euro.
Crashing through gates and bouncing over moguls, competitive skiers pound their knees mercilessly.
I was catching six and seven pound walleye, and the darn scale would read only two or three pounds.
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Vendors sold whistles and hooters for a pound apiece, their faces familiar from less exalted events.
A 60 pound lingcod was caught off the dock by a little boy trying to catch bullhead.
One pound of seed spaced at the above recommendation should take up one-tenth of an acre.
I caught a whiff of her hair and the flowery scent made my heart pound faster.
No rabbit outperforms a Florida White for percentage of edible meat per pound of live weight.
The Bad Guys were the European Union, the sexual liberals, the would-be abolishers of the pound and the Bureaucrats.
Take six fresh eggs, six lemons, half a pound of castor sugar, and half a pint of white rum.
By exporting the coffee themselves, farmers earn considerably more per pound than they would if they sold through industry middlemen.
Ninety cents buys you a crispy slice of pizza with about a pound of cold, shredded mozzarella cheese on top.
The six-month-old Rottweiler had been rescued from the pound by the Gregory Street woman, while the two-year-old ridgeback was visiting her home.
And that is before the multi-million pound start-up costs are factored in.
Most commonly though you'll pay a pound or two per copy for the book with or without dust wrappers, so even buying from book shops it's not going to crease you financially.
Having a ten pound pom for a Dad has certain affects on an Aussie child.
Up to 18 hours of use on a 20 pound barbecue tank of propane.
Of all of the predators on the planet, the star-nosed mole is, inch for inch, pound for pound, the most vicious, voracious, and velocious eater of all.
After more than a decade of disuse since being given a half-million pound revamp, plans are afoot to open part of Hellifield Station in time for Easter.
The start of May will also see the arrival of steelheads into the water which, pound for pound, are said to offer the best fighting sport of any game fish.
The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to measure the pounds, ounces, quarters and gills of an untold number of items.
Bob Myers, from Leeds Yorkshire checked in with an 18 pound pompano for the catch of the day, while Frank Pickett, of Jersey came in second with a nice 15.6 pound queen fish.
I took a seat on a high barstool amongst the quiet and serious four and ordered half a pint of light ale for the golden pound I had had in my right pocket.
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On the other side of the coin, cereal growers are receiving much-improved grain and oilseed prices as a result of a good harvest and a weakening of the pound against the euro.
A quiet descended so deep and calm that I felt sure the person had left, gone to pound on some other headcase's front door, but then whoever-it-was knocked again.
In fact, Army forces have always relied on indirect or aerial firepower to pound enemy positions into submission before ground forces are committed.
What is Spain without the peseta, France without the franc, what would America be without the dollar, even the old IR for the Irish pound had a characteristic all its own.
There were twenty shillings in a pound and twelve pence in a shilling.
A doctor whose close friend died of breast cancer is to pound the streets of New York to raise funds for hospices which care for the terminally ill.
The first stage of a multi-billion pound high-speed rail network which will run close to York has been given the go-ahead, according to reports at the weekend.
In our house, a pound of icing sugar made about seven peppermint creams.
It ought to be obvious that if Westbury is to have any traffic relief, it has to be by other than an umpteen million pound environmentally-damaging bypass.
The giant pumps are part of a multi-million pound flood relief scheme which is designed to divert the River Tutt out of Boroughbridge when the River Ure is in flood.
The news reports of the speech quoted that line, so it became the pound cake speech.
Many industries in the UK have suffered as a result of cheap imported foreign goods and as a result of the strength of the pound against other currencies.
Unless you check the asterisk at the bottom of the nutrition facts panel, you'd never know that those numbers leave out the pound of ground beef that you're supposed to add.
The baby born in 1988 weighed only one pound and four ounces.
When Wayne returns, the U.S. government sends its lackey Superman to pound some sense into Batman.
You can also make this dessert with fat-free golden pound cake.
It would be more useful if our West European partners' position was less platonic and if they made a more energetic and persistent effort to pound it into the Americans.
This usually means being dragged around the national forest at the end of a leash attached to Willie, a retired 85 pound black and tan coonhound with three legs.
The exhaust from an ion engine travels up to 10 times faster than does the exhaust from a chemical engine, generating far more thrust per pound of propellant.
They can watch us sitting in the draught at the door of the hall with a hat collecting pound coins as villagers straggle in to watch the latest show.
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Should Britain abandon the pound and join the European single currency?
Or that, lacking alarm clocks, people hired watchmen to come to their house in the morning and pound on the door to wake them up?
I could hear ten pairs of heavy feet pound past me as Julius yanked me up.
Maybe it's penny wise and pound foolish to spend so much on the military.
While successive opinion polls confirm that Britain remains against the euro, the eggheads in the government maintain that support for the pound is soft.
Humberside Police also operates a scheme in which residents pay a pound a month to register details of their premises and emergency telephone numbers of keyholders.
Joining him will be all thinking people that care about this planet, including many thousands of scientists that haven't got dollar or pound signs blocking their vision.
And last time I checked, Mr. Carlos did not pound skins for Metallica.
Luke is born prematurely weighing only one pound and four ounces.
They must not weigh in at more than a pound less than they weighed out.
It takes about twenty leaves to make a pound of carnauba wax.
Avoiding those minor sources would be penny wise and pound foolish.
A beautiful two pound rainbow spent the next couple of minutes trying its hardest to imitate one of the swallows that were gracefully taking duns from the surface.
Donaldson's alter ego was a wet fish merchant who specialised in writing brash, outrageous letters to eminent public figures, enclosing a one pound note.
Charge three crowns a pound for forcemeat that costs five crowns to make.
Rice could be bought at 2d a pound and sago and sugar at 3d a pound.
Chip leaders should pound away and continue to pick up blinds and antes.
The British pound with 100 pence, had until recently 20 shillings and each shilling had 12 pence, like our pre-1957 rupee with 16 annas and each anna divided into four paisa.
This is a delicious pound cake glazed with a blood orange glaze.
On February 24, 2010, Dawn Brancheau, a top SeaWorld trainer was killed by Tilikum, a 12,000 pound killer whale.
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It's a sordid story, curly as the 200-plus pound porker's corkscrew tail.
Watching her slice the pound cake, smiling and laughing, was exactly like the television show.
Put the spices into a pestle and mortar and pound them up with a pinch of salt.
A millionth of a pound of pesticide can sometimes be deadly.
The winner was a five-and-a-half pound cod while hundreds of anglers caught nothing more than a cold, fighting off biting wind, rain and huge waves.
Double rooms have a further twelve pound supplement, payable in advance.
Concerns have been expressed in relation to a proposed multimillion pound residential and commercial development for the Crobally area of Tramore.
They are more heavily exposed to toxicants in the environment because, pound for pound, they eat more food, drink more water, and breathe more air than adults.
The modern discus weighs in at just 5 pounds, one-third of the original weight, and the long jumps were done with the contestant carrying a five pound weight in each hand.
Thinking that no one could see me, I quickly put the pound cake ball into my back pocket.
Take half a pound of pork sausages from the freezer and thaw in microwave.
One pound of raw skinless, boneless chicken will serve about four people.
Instead, they fill their plates with slices of lavender-scented pound cake, streusel-topped coffee cake, lemon buttermilk Bundt cake, and a rich chocolate cake.
A crisp ten pound note gets you two meals from a selection of lasagne, spag bol, chicken tikka massala, bangers and mash, veggie burger, and a bottle of the wine of the month.
He had been hoping for a quick end to this campaign, utilizing the ship's guns to pound the hillsides above the defenders in an effort to dislodge and disorganise them.
Why did Tilikum, the highly intelligent, 12,000 pound orca, kill his trainer?
Staying on sweetcorn I had an all action hour or so taking fish right through the sizes, the largest one being the last before I moved, a nineteen pound common.
The hash tag, or pound sign, before a word allows multiple users that aren't normally connected to instantly follow a specific term they are interested in.
Mr. Freon did arrive and pumped in a pound or so but the real problem is that the yardmen have blown about 25 pounds of clippings into the base of the unit.
Not that I've any issue with gaining the odd pound or two but since I'm guzzling beer and eating chips and chocolate all the time I guess things could only get worse.

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