litre of beer
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflitreandbeer
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litre
noun[C]
uk/ˈliː.tər/us/ˈliː.t̬ɚ/
a unit for measuring the volume of a liquid or a gas, equal to 1,000 ...
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beer
noun
uk/bɪər/us/bɪr/
an alcoholic drink made from grain and hops (= a type ...
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(Definition oflitreandbeerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This equates to a duty increase on half alitreofbeerof just over 1 euro cent.
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No one can accuse you of doing things by halves: 17 francs tax on a litre of wine, but a mere 6.50 francs on alitreofbeer!
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A person may arrive with 60 litres of beer for a party which a dozen people will attend.
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Here, however, in addition to the specified monetary limit a limit of 50 litres of beer and 25 lighters is being imposed.
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At present £120 will buy about 300 litres of beer.
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I compare that to a few litres of beer and a bag of tobacco.
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It attacked a constituent of mine for a few bags of tobacco and a few litres of beer, yet large-scale smuggling is still going on.
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The 50 litres of beer could be brought in for other than a commercial purpose.
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After all, 50 litres of beer is a pretty handsome allowance for anybody.
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Although the indicative limit that is imposed by the customs is 110 litres of beer per head, most people bring back far less.
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Now travellers have an indicative personal allowance of 110 litres of beer.
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The criminal in question will be bringing in more than 1,000 litres of beer in his pick-up—or 90 cases—and saving duty of about 50p a litre.
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There is a marked difference between the use that can be made of 50 litres of beer and the use that can be made of 25 lighters.
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The retail value of the goods seized is not available, the volumes involved were 117,579 litres of beer, 4,556 litres of spirits and 13,314 litres of wine.
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They accepted an indicative limit of 110 litres of beer per person as the legal limit which an individual could bring into the country per trip for personal consumption.
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He allegedly got his name because he could swallow four litres of beer without taking the beaker from his mouth.
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Incredibly, this involves serving thousands of litres of beer to the general populace - at no charge whatsoever.
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The brewery sold 69.7 million litres of beer in the 2013 financial year.
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