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For attending hevening parties now we generally get one pound and our refreshments.
It was only in the late 1820s that transactions in pounds, shillings and pence became virtually extinct.
They had been advised to eat one pound of red meat per day and avoid carbohydrate-rich food.
And every bishop, abbot and abbess who is able to do so is to give a pound of silver in alms.
After peaking at $2.00/pound in late 1997, the international price fell to $1.00 in 1999 and then halved again during the next two years.
Millions of pounds worth of goods are lost annually to shoplifters who apparently, are making off with small but valuable items.
It was those disadvantages which explain in part the persistence of accounts in pounds, shillings and pence until well into the nineteenth century.
The amount of theoretical comment by academics outweighs, pound for pound, anything practitioners might be saying about it themselves.
As a small footnote: one wonders at the large difference between the list prices in dollars and in pounds.
Let a third string be added and stretched by ten pounds and one eighth: thus there emerges another tone.
A pound in one colony was not worth the same as a pound in another and accordingly exchanged with sterling at different rates.
And your petitioner in the prosecution thereof hath spent above 2000 pounds.
Due to intensive efforts on the part of colonial officials, domestic production of raw cotton reached a high of 320 million pounds in 1943.
On the other, the depreciated dollar threatened the export advantage which the pound had accrued since its floatation.
Even when they have not practiced them recently, connections between hammer and pound are available.
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