In " The Adventure of the Priory School ", Holmes rubs his hands with glee when the Duke of Holdernesse notes the 6, 000 pound sterling sum, which surprises even Watson, and then pats the cheque, saying, " I am a poor man ", an incident that could be dismissed as representative of Holmes's tendency toward sarcastic humour.

Powell used the financial year of 1968 – 9 to show how income tax could be halved from 8s 3d to 4s 3d in the pound ( basic rate cut from 41 % to 21 %) and how capital gains tax and selective employment tax could be abolished without reducing expenditure on defence or the social services.

A Common Market report suggested that the pound could not be sustained as a reserve currency and it was suggested again that the pound should be devalued.

Notable is the fact that Flintheart Glomgold's first coin could never be a rand because the South Africans utilized the South African pound from 1825 to 1961, when the South African Rand was introduced.

Shute identified how engineering, science and design could improve human life and more than once used the apparently anonymous epigram, " It has been said an engineer is a man who can do for five shillings what any fool can do for a pound ...." It is said that Shute was a cousin of the red haired Irish-American actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.

Although Manny Pacquiao went into the fight recognized as the leading pound for pound boxer in the world, some pundits speculated that 147 pounds could have been too far above his natural weight against the larger De La Hoya.

A rocket carrying about one pound of powder could travel almost.

The original horse pump at Thames Head was replaced by a windmill, but Clowes discovered that he could not stop the summit pound from leaking.

"… was notorious for its arguments between bargees and millers, who being in possession of the lock, whether it was a flash or pound lock, could preserve their head of water, and not let it flow down river, by opening the gates, as long as they wished.

With one basic 24 pound unit a scaffold of various sizes and heights could be assembled easily by a couple of labourers without the nuts or bolts previously needed.

He also had cargo rollers installed leading to the loading door ; 250 pound bombs could be thus be rolled out the door while in flight.

These four reconfigured trainers were armed with two. 30 caliber machine guns and five inch rockets, and could carry 100 pound bombs.

A pound could be subdivided in 19 different ways into integral numbers of pence ( for example, 1 / 4, 1 / 5, 1 / 6, 1 / 8 and 1 / 10 of a pound were respectively 60, 48, 40, 30, and 24 pence ) and in 8 additional ways into integral numbers of farthings ( for example, 1 / 64 pound was 3 pence 3 farthings, written 3¾d ).

A rocket carrying about one pound of powder could travel almost.

By comparison, the " transistor " could fit in a pocket and weighed half a pound, or less, and was powered by standard flashlight batteries or a single compact 9-volt battery.

It is known that during the first century AD an as could only buy a pound of bread or a litre of cheap wine ( or according to Pompeiian graffiti, the services of a cheap prostitute ).

Food was scarce in Sydney at that time and prices were being driven up, yet pigs were plentiful in the Society Islands and King could contract with Bass at 6 pence a pound where he'd been paying a shilling ( 12 pence ) previously.

In addition to this alleged advantage over the Lee Enfield, the Ross was also a pound lighter and could be disassembled more quickly without special tools.

One pound of coal could turn six pounds of water ( 0. 7 gallons ) to steam.

If Great Britain could remove the pound from the gold standard during the war and reestablish the gold standard after the war, then the gold standard is not as necessary as the oligarchic monetary few would want the proletariat many to believe.

If, in England, the wine sold for 70 francs ( or the pound equivalent ), which he then used to buy coal, which he imported into France, and was found to be worth 90 francs in France, he would have made a profit of 40 francs.

“ An ‘ aypenny a lot ing-uns .” “ Twopence a pound grapes .” “ Three a penny Yarmouth bloaters .” “ Who ‘ ll buy a bonnet for fourpence ?” “ Pick ‘ em out cheap here!

Separately, George H. Hoyt created Wheatena circa 1879, during an era when retailers would typically buy cereal ( the most popular being cracked wheat, oatmeal, and cerealine ) in barrel lots, and scoop it out to sell by the pound to customers.

In the U. S., Class A breeders are licensed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) to sell animals for research purposes, while Class B dealers are licensed to buy animals from " random sources " such as auctions, pound seizure, and newspaper ads.

Major raised interest rates to 10 percent and authorised the spending of billions of pounds to buy up the sterling being frantically sold on the currency markets but the measures failed to prevent the pound falling lower than its minimum level in the ERM.

Heminges as mentioned in Shakespeare's will along with Richard Burbage and Henry Condell, each was bequeathed two nobles ( roughly a pound ) to buy mourning rings in his memory.

If the rate is lower than 2. 0000 on December 31 ( say at 1. 9000 ), meaning that the dollar is stronger and the pound is weaker, then the option is exercised, allowing the owner to sell GBP at 2. 0000 and immediately buy it back in the spot market at 1. 9000, making a profit of ( 2. 0000 GBPUSD – 1. 9000 GBPUSD )* 1, 000, 000 GBP

As an example of direct intervention to manage currency valuation, in the 20th century Great Britain's central bank, the Bank of England, would sometimes use its reserves to buy large amounts of pound Sterling to prevent it falling in value-Black Wednesday was a case where it had insufficient reserves of foreign currency to do this successfully.

One story is that a customer wanting to buy tea would be asked by the giant, " will you take a pound or a fistful ?".

Each plane carried two five-hundred pound bombs.

Acceptance of radiopasteurization is likely to be delayed, however, for two reasons: ( 1 ) the storage life of fresh chicken under refrigeration is becoming a minimal problem because of constantly improved sanitation and distributing practices, and ( 2 ) treatment by antibiotics, a measure already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, serves to extend the storage life of chicken at a low cost of about 0.5 cents per pound.

As he becomes the new staff cook, to prove his friendship he secures two pounds of sugar for Bäumer and half a pound of butter for Tjaden.

Tercentenary of the Bank of England, commemorated on a 1994 British two pound coin.

The most common is the pound lock, which consists of a chamber within which the water level can be raised or lowered connecting either two pieces of canal at a different level or the canal with a river or the sea.

There were also two varieties of refiners ' carats once used in the United Kingdom — the pound carat and the ounce carat.

" Another recipe, for artificial " thunder ", specifies a mixture of one pound native sulfur, two pounds linden or willow charcoal, and six pounds of saltpeter.

The corresponding oxide ( slightly purer at 99. 99 %) was priced at $ 11. 70 or $ 7. 15 per pound for the two quantity ranges.

The Roman pound and ounce were both defined in terms of different sized collections of carob seeds, and consequently, the two mass units were related to each other through a simple fraction.

Between 1860 and 1914, the gravity dropped from 1. 058 ° to 1. 050 ° and the hopping rate from two pounds to one pound per 36 gallon barrel.

Less than two years later on the infamous Black Wednesday of September 1992, the pound sterling crashed out of the system after the pound fell below the agreed exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark.

* January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.

One pound ( 450 g ) of flour will yield a standard loaf of bread or two French loaves.

Two special designs of the British commemorative two pound coins were issued in the United Kingdom in 1989 to celebrate the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution.

A wire nail machine that he also patented reduced the price of wire nails from eight to two cents per pound.

A Han-dynasty pottery model of two men operating a winnowing machine with a Crank ( mechanism ) | crank handle and a Trip hammer | tilt hammer used to pound grain.

If the workers on a farm can produce either one million pounds of wheat or two million pounds of barley, then the opportunity cost of producing one pound of wheat is the two pounds of barley forgone ( assuming the production possibilities frontier is linear ).

The kwacha replaced the Malawian pound in 1971 at a rate of two kwacha to one pound.

Upon their arrival at Columbine, the duo met near Harris's car and armed two 20 pound ( 9 kg ) propane bombs before entering the cafeteria a few minutes prior to the beginning of the A lunch shift, placing the duffel bags containing the bombs inside.

# Get tomatoes quite ripe on a dry day, squeeze them with your hands till reduced to a pulp, then put half a pound of fine salt to one hundred tomatoes, and boil them for two hours.

When she winds up in the dog pound Pluto saves the day, becomes Dinah's hero and the two start dating.

On the first drill two All-Big Ten linemen and a 6 foot two, 220 pound fullback nicknamed the " Owatonna Thunder " charged at Bronko, who promptly split the blockers and drove the big fullback into a blocking dummy.