Pound in example sentence

While some still believe that the taxpaying public might be persuaded to spend an additional "penny in the pound" (i.e., 1% of tax) of income tax to keep higher education going, most know that this path can be ruled out for general economic as well as political reasons.

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This substitute cost nine dollars a pound, whereas real heparin, the real ingredient, cost 900 dollars a pound.

We're going to keep hollowing them out, because you, inch for inch and pound for pound and dollar for dollar, none of you could squeeze revenue out of that space like the Boston Shuffler could.

So this weighs a little more than a tenth of a pound.

Today, we can produce virgin metal from ore at a cost of less than 50 cents a pound.

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