These they carried on board, finding in the whole of these bags 800 pounds weight of silver.
In the beginning of February, the natives brought them considerable quantities of rice, giving 70 or 80 pounds weightin exchange for an old hatchet.
Not only do they fire huge elongated shells of 1950 pounds weight, but their range and accuracy is most remarkable.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds weight of sulphuric acid were prepared from iron pyrites, while the high price of sulphur consequent upon the monopoly lasted.
A mass of native copper has been found in a valley in the Brazils, containing 2,666 pounds weight.
Block tin is procured from the common tin ore, and usually cast in blocks of about 320 pounds weight.
The 18th I bought an elephant's tooth of 63 pounds weight, for five yards of blue calico, and seven or eight pounds of bar iron.
This test, for the year 1828, would exhibit about seventy millions of pounds weight of salt on about forty millions of pounds weight of fish.
And it appearing to us by the annexed affidavit, that there will be left remaining in their warehouses a quantity of tea not less than ten millions of pounds weight, as by the said Act is provided and directed.
One of his last recorded remarks was his exclamation when, in answer to his enquiry, the Lord High Treasurer told him that before becoming extinct, the last dynasty had accumulated seven pounds weight of precious stones.
This process is somewhat expensive, as it burns away perhaps 6 pounds weight of yarn in every 100 pounds.
The bundles of yarn made up on the bundling machine are usually 5 to 10 pounds weight, the latter being by far the more common size.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pounds weight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
