bushel of wheat

collocation in English

meaningsofbushelandwheat

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bushel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbʊʃ.əl/us
/ˈbʊʃ.əl/
a unit of measurement equal to approximately 36.4 litres in Britain or 35.2 litres in ...
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wheat
noun[U]
uk
/wiːt/us
/wiːt/
a plant whose yellowish-brown grain is used for making flour, or the ...
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(Definition ofbushelandwheatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Onebushelofwheatwill, at the outside, produce no more than 15 bushels.
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The price of abushelofwheaton the world market has doubled from some $3.50 to more than $7 in the past 12 months.
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Is it seriously suggested that not a single penny shall go to the agricultural labourer, without whose toil and skill not a solitarybushelofwheatcould be raised?
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Hand threshing was laborious, with abushelofwheattaking about an hour.
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By 1770, abushelofwheatcost twice as much as it did in 1720.
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In all cases, the cost of producing abushelofwheat"includes" the amount of money paid in wages.
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Behind him stands abushelofwheatwith a sickle between shafts.
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A deal was struck for a horse andbushelofwheatin exchange for the boy.
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Since all eastern counties had relatively high yields, each harvested acre produced more bushels of wheat and hence a more valuable crop than farms in the west.
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The figures are 32.21 bushels of wheat and 42.38 bushels of oats.
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The agriculturists of the country, after all, produce, on an average, 31 bushels of wheat to the acre in this not entirely favourable climate.
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Supposing a farmer sells 1,000 bushels of wheat, will he have an equivalent amount in wheat offals?
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These quantities were, in fact, 95 bushels of wheat, 168 bushels of barley, and 242 bushels of oats.
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They had millions of bushels of wheat left over, and they stored it in their granaries or elevators.
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It will be £2 an acre if he grows that 18 bushels of wheat for the nation.
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It is reckoned that they have something like 150,000,000 bushels of wheat beyond what they can dispose of.
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Seven years ago he could have paid that rent on 150 bushels of wheat.
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In 1925 a farmer could pay £1 in wages and rent and household expenses with three bushels of wheat; but to-day it will take six bushels.
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The contract is for one year and covers 80 million bushels of wheat.
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We not only imported those bushels of wheat at 49 cents a bushel, but we imported two million unemployed along with them.
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