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square yard

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meanings of squareand yard


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square
adjective
uk /skweər/ us /skwer/
having the shape of ...
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yard
noun[C]
uk /jɑːd/ us /jɑːrd/
a unit of measurement equal to three feet or approximately ...
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Examples of square yard


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Carpets were put down at £24 a squareyard.
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The corporation pays so much per squareyard per annum.
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The amount of labour required to make a squareyard of linen exceeds that required to make a squareyard of cotton.
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The effort to imagine their contents, when in use, was like undertaking to count the grains of a squareyard of sea-beach.
How much carpeting was supplied and at what cost per squareyard, on average?
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We rescued ourselves and not one squareyard of territory has been yielded to the enemy.
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The cost then comes out at £4 a squareyard, and the running costs are high.
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I understand that the cost is about £2 per squareyard.
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In another area there was not a squareyard of land upon which to build houses.
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Five years ago£10 per squareyard was considered an excessive price.
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When the holes are drilled, the concrete is trodden into those £24 per squareyard carpets.
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That is at the rate of £5 per squareyard—a very large sum.
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A site was bought about two years ago at£19 per squareyard.
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The three urban authorities, and every squareyard in my constituency is a depressed area.
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When you come to production, every available squareyard must be made to produce food.
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It does not propose to extend its area of supply by a single squareyard.
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He said that he wanted from £10 to £20 per squareyard.
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In one case, we paid £100 a squareyard for land for city improvements and for houses.
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Has one ever heard of a farmer who voluntarily gives up one squareyard of land, let alone anything else?
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Every squareyard of by far the greater part of our built-up areas has to be covered.
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A battle royal for every squareyard of open space in the country will be raging shortly.
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It probably has more crush barriers per squareyard than almost any other ground in the country.
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Probably more construction per squareyard is going on there than in any other city in the country.
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We make contracts for perhaps fifteen years at so much a squareyard over the whole street.
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