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Like, can you give me an idea about -- say, it's a-- it's a pound or it's a half-a-pound.
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The second customer wanted a glass of orangeade, the third, half-a-pound of sweets.
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A good lady of our congregation sent me this morning half-a-pound of butter.
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“If you please, half-a-pound of currants, four pounds of sugar, and three pounds of rice for the kutia.”
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First time you come over to my house for dinner, you know, the family has just met you, and my mother will get upset about something, go out to the kitchen and come back in with a half-a-pound of butter and smear it across your face.
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These new means of production signify, practically, that each citizen of the country will get a half-a-pound more of fish from these 17 ships alone.
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Some people could get no meat, and when the Colonel awoke to the situation he suddenly limited the allowance of each adult to half-a-pound _per diem_.
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Take half-a-pound of sugar, a quarter of caviare, a quarter of calipash,
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A lady, known to be in his interest, was seen buying half-a-pound of tea, in the shop of Mr. Fad, the grocer, for which she paid with a whole sovereign, _and took no change_.
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No sugar without a card, and then only half-a-pound, and they do say it'll only be a quarter soon.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917
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