arrobas

The 1992-1993 harvest yielded only 4.28 million arrobas, that is, 2 million-I said arrobas; I meant tons of sugar.

Castro Gives Speech at Moncada Barracks Anniversary 1993

The 1992-1993 harvest yielded only 4.28 million arrobas, that is, 2 million-I said arrobas; I meant tons of sugar.

Castro Gives Speech at Moncada Barracks Anniversary 1993

The 1992-1993 harvest yielded only 4.28 million arrobas, that is, 2 million-I said arrobas; I meant tons of sugar.

Castro Gives Speech at Moncada Barracks Anniversary 1993

[Cutting] arrobas, that is what we should be doing now upon the return of the fishermen, as I explained to them.

RETURNING FISHERMEN GIVEN HEROES' WELCOME 1970

Total still to be ground on 1 February in this region: 400 million arrobas, which is approximately half the Matanzas harvest and very nearly half the Havana harvest.

FIDEL DISCUSSES PROGRESS OF SUGAR HARVEST 1970

All of the small holders who physically possessed cane fields were given up to 40,000 arrobas, that is, those who had 35,000 arrobas which they milled.

FIRST REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL PLANTA 1961

The young women were sold there for ivory: an ordinary-looking one brought two arrobas, sixty-four pounds weight, and an extra beauty brought twice that amount.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Pevas, where there is a population of two hundred and sixty inhabitants, Benito would perhaps have done some trade with the lay brothers of the mission, who are at the same time wholesale merchants, but these had just sent away some bales of sarsaparilla and arrobas of caoutchouc toward the Lower Amazon, and their stores were empty.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

In the first place, seven thousand arrobas of caoutchouc, each of about thirty pounds, composed the most precious part of the cargo, for every pound of it was worth from three to four francs.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

He was satisfied with two arrobas of raisins and two bushels of wheat, and promised to translate them faithfully and with all despatch; but to make the matter easier, and not to let such a precious find out of my hands, I took him to my house, where in little more than a month and a half he translated the whole just as it is set down here.

Don Quixote 2002