This half-pound weight loss equals 8 ounces of fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cycling Nutrition with Monique Ryan: Meal plans for the cyclocross season] Reference

Again, he weighed out a half-pound of tea, as he supposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference

The hand-formed half-pound burger offers a heartier alternative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serving Up Nostalgia] Reference

Everybody knows Rice Krispies need more than half-pound of sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’ll Take Coffee Over Pride Any Day… @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy] Reference

Deciding exactly how far you can stretch a half-pound of hamburger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tricia Ellis Christensen: My Kid's Hungry And They're Talking About Lipstick] Reference

At the regular hour each person received his half-pound of biscuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference

We use beef trimmings here — a half-pound to every pound of venison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expert Butcher Bob Matuszewski Shares His Best Venison Recipes] Reference

Wash well, fill with hot water, add a half-pound washing soda, and let stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference

~MARGARETTES~ -- One half-pound of peanuts, one pound of dates chopped fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.] Reference

Jaina Shook measures half-pound portions of ground beef at Tom's Meat Market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom's Meat Market reopens] Reference

Have a half-pound of blanched and quartered almonds and place on the squares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book] Reference

So how does he coax such wonderful flavor out of a commercial half-pound dog?.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Top Dog] Reference

A Spokane County police robot removed a half-pound of TATP from his apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010] Reference

France, and put up in half-pound packages, and sold by all of our leading grocers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference

He nodded and also pointed to the half-pound cheeseburger with fries and cole slaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Went Underground]

Reside in Phoenix and crave half-pound, mouth-watering, decadent cookies from Chicago?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jessica Radloff: Signature Culinary Gifts for the Holidays (That SHIP!)] Reference

Archaeopteryx had a pretty decent wingspan for a half-pound bird, more than 20 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Really Early Birds] Reference

I once went to Denver during playoffs and found half-pound supplements in both dailies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mort Rosenblum: As Jefferson Said, Ignorant Nations Aren't Free] Reference

You can apply a half-pound to a quarter acre, or any smaller space you want to put it on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

A larger bag may contain a few more, but the half-pound weight is good for any sized bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

“I only got a half-pound of steak,” he said, coming in one afternoon with his papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

The most dangerous thing inside was a home-made salami sandwich with a half-pound of garlic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Kristol: Rove and Libby Will Be Indicted] Reference

Add a quarter-cup of brown sugar, a half-pound dried prunes, and a half-pound dried apricots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexy striptease stew] Reference

In other words, I wouldn't put less than a half-pound on the plot set aside for it on my place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

The half-pound boxes get finished, wax paper on top, covered, stacked, counted, put on the truck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With the Working Woman] Reference

We put on board her a twelve-pounder carronade and mounted four half-pound swivels on her gunwales.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Studies are showing after the age of 30, your body loses a half-pound of muscle in every year you age.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2007] Reference

The milkman was just delivering next door and I bought two pints of Jersey and a half-pound of butter from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]

He insists, moreover, that every man shall have his half-pound of meat, either beef, mutton, or bacon, every day but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

Each hour I withdrew a half-pound of blood, then I fed her and for three hours I drew half a pound of blood from the saphena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

Nothing contentious - a little milk, some eggs, some bacon, a carton or two of chocolate custard and a simple half-pound of butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]

As she was thanking us for our help and saying goodbye, a half-pound packet of self-injecting frisson ampules fell out of her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Way]

In reply, we of the afterguard pointed out that it was our chance for life that was doubled did we but bear with the half-pound ration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 19] Reference

Boiled yam, fried taro, alligator pear salad – there, you've got me all mixed, Then I found a last delectable half-pound of dried squid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunches of Knuckles] Reference