quarter pound


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Noun1.quarter pound - 4 ounces avoirdupois
lbf., pound - a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
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Maribel Santos, Abdeen Darwish, Farah Ahmed, Ceferina Nava and Nadim Siddiq won a share of the quarter pound of gold for selecting Quarter Pounder with cheese sandwich.
For shoppers, the increases would have meant 3p extra on a pint of milk, 15p on half a pound of cheese and 15p on a quarter pound pack of butter.
"Each fan generates about a quarter pound of debris per game, and about three times that much during the playoffs," said Wheaton.
For pounds 4, shoppers and office workers can order a quarter pound of mixed meats and cheeses at Sandwiched in the City - in the Dominions Arcade off Queen Street - and try to lose weight at the same time.
Louis Park, Minn., DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen franchise as a matter of convenience: Although the picture quality isn't ideal, being able to slip PalmPix into a purse or pocket (they weigh less than a quarter pound) means they're used more often.
Producing the cotton required for a regular T-shirt releases a quarter pound of chemical fertilizers and pesticides into the water, air and soil.
At 7.5 pounds, it is approximately a quarter pound heavier than standard Featherweights.
Canterbury Foods Ltd, tel:0173 222 8700, have introduced a precooked quarter pound spicy beanburger.
After eating a quarter pound of the ribbed vegetable every day for a week -- but not altering his diet in any other way -- he noted that his blood pressure dropped back into the normal range.
This product launch has helped the company to accelerate its revenues from the grassfed meat products.Exhibit 3 Labeled and unlabeled Grassfed Beef Sales Grassfed meat market is expected to show an exponential growth in North American region in next few year as, the average American, ate around 65 pounds of beef and around quarter pound of Bison in 2010.
However, at the end of the four weeks, the water group had lost 2 1/2 pounds, the cornflakes group had lost a quarter pound, and the oatmeal group had gained half a pound.
1940s parcel: 10s (50p) A quarter pound of tea, tin of cocoa powder, bar of chocolate, tinned pud, tinned meat roll, tin of processed cheese, tin of condensed milk, dried eggs, tinned sardines or herring, jam, margarine, sugar, tinned veg, biscuits, soap, 50 cigarettes or tobacco 2013 parcel: PS10.80 An orange or apple, a banana, two carrots, two onions, two potatoes, tin of baked beans, tinned tomatoes, tinned peas/ kidney beans, pasta, rice, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, 20 tea bags, a carton of apple or orange juice, and a carton of long-life milk