pint of blood

collocation in English

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pint
noun[C]
uk
/paɪnt/us
/paɪnt/
a measure for liquid equal to about half a litre. There are eight pints in ...
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blood
noun[U]
uk
/blʌd/us
/blʌd/
the red liquid that is sent around the body by the heart, and carries oxygen and important substances to organs and tissue, and removes ...
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(Definition ofpintandbloodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Examples of the former include the donation of apintofbloodor bone marrow.
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I will undertake to say that, for everypintofbloodwe take from the community, he takes a barrelful, and does less for it.
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Eachpintofbloodcontains about two trillion red blood cells, while some 107 million blood donations are collected globally every year.
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Continuing to operate he carried out another twenty-two operation the next day, even giving apintofbloodto save a wounded soldier.
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Nolan shortcuts his way through the surgery, risking the patient's life but saving him some scar tissue and apintofblood.
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Wallace lost apintofbloodand was in a mild state of shock.
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The baby is between 10 and 12 ins long and pumps 50 pints of blood a day.
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Those who feel so hard up that they give pints of blood for money include drug addicts and others whose blood may well be infected.
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After two weeks in hospital and four pints of blood the patient recovered.
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By that stage, the child is about a foot in length and pumping 50 pints of blood a day.
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He needed 14 pints of blood, and was fighting for his life.
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I spoke to the cardiac surgeon on the phone and the injured motorist immediately received a transfusion of more than 50 pints of blood.
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We know that at the 16th week the heart pumps about 50 pints of blood a day.
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From 18 weeks gestation, a baby is not a blob of jelly or a lump of tissue but a foot in length, pumping 50 pints of blood a day.
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In a seven-and-a-half-hour emergency operation over-and-above the original surgery, he was given 55 pints of blood.
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In the fourth room, they find a machine fitted with circular saws that contains a beaker requiring ten pints of blood to open the door.
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Since the tradition began in 1985, more than 90,000 pints of blood have been donated.
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By nineteenth-century standards, thirteen pints of blood taken over the space of a month was a large but not an exceptional quantity.
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On the funeral he wept so violently, that he brought up several pints of blood.
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