pound of meat

collocation in English

meaningsofpoundandmeat

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pound
noun[C]
uk
/paʊnd/us
/paʊnd/
the standard unit of money used in the UK and some ...
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meat
noun
uk
/miːt/us
/miːt/
the flesh of an animal when it is used ...
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(Definition ofpoundandmeatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Everypoundofmeatexported, alive or dead, must be replaced by imports—much of which comes from the many countries to which we export.
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I think it meant that a levy could be put on eachpoundofmeatpie or sausages.
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The total amount which meat inspection puts on apoundofmeatis less than a tenth of a penny.
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To give the farm worker an extrapoundofmeata week would take 21,000 tons of meat a year, and the cost would be just over £2 million.
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We are almost at the stage when people will be asking themselves whether they can afford to pay their rent increase or buy apoundofmeat.
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Give the man hispoundofmeat.
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The cold deli sandwiches are also served on a kaiser roll with about 1/3poundofmeatand cheese.
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Insects on the other hand require only 2 pounds of feed to produce 1poundofmeat, making them four times as efficient.
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The cattle are off colour, and in the long trek down on the hoof they lose at least 100 pounds of meat per head.
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At the end of that time, if the sheep are still alive, we would get something like 60 to 70 pounds of meat from each of them.
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A buffalo cow, weighing about 900 pounds, will yield 272 pounds of meat or 54 to 68 pounds of dried meat.
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The company went public in 1968, by which time it was shipping two million pounds of meat per week.
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The two players closest to nine pounds of meat will win the test.
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This is usually interpreted per 10 pounds of meat.
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It also sells a 15 pound burger consisting of ten pounds of meat, five pounds of bun, cheese, ketchup, mustard, onions, pickles, tomatoes, and mayonnaise.
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It was so named in part for the ballpark sponsor and part for its 1.6666 (or 5/3) pounds of meat.
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About five pounds of meat are required to make one pound of dried meat suitable for pemmican.
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They verify the processing of tens of billions of pounds of meat and poultry, and billions of pounds of egg products.
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A goat may produce 40 pounds of meat, however, which is much less than from cattle or pigs, often making goats unsuitable for modern meat processors.
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