One pound of sugar, One pound of butter, Three pounds of flour, Two table spoonsful of ginger, One gill of cream, One pint of molasses.
Three pounds of flour, One gill of yeast, A quarter of a pound of butter, Three eggs, Milk enough to form a dough.
Three pounds of flour, A quarter of a pound of sugar, Half an ounce of ground ginger, Half a pound of butter, Molasses sufficient to moisten the flour.
Three pounds (or quarts) of flour, half a pound of lard, and a pound of butter.
Take a buttock of beef; beat it in a mortar; put to it three pounds of bacon cut in small pieces; season with pepper and salt, and mix in the bacon with your hands.
Then to five pounds of paste put three pounds of codling jelly, and make a candy of three pounds of fine sugar.
Cut into pieces two or three pounds of the lean of fresh tender beef, mutton, veal, or pork, and peel and slice a quarter of a peck or more of ripe tomatos.
Prepare two or three pounds of the best beef, by trimming off all the fat, and removing the bone.
To three pounds of beef allow four quarts of flour and not quite two pounds of suet.
Lead; the great maund, of thirty-three pounds, seven one-third mahmudies.
Three pounds of chick will produce one pound of opium, from a third to a fifth of the weight being lost in evaporation.
On the other hand, a tree that is neglected will not give above two or three pounds.
It is imported in square cakes, weighing two or three pounds each, wrapped in banana leaves, packed in casks.
The proportion is three poundsof bran for every twenty-eight pounds of flour, to be boiled for an hour, and then strained through a hair sieve.
Taking all my sources of income together, I shall now be earning two hundred and eighty-three pounds a year.
Two hundred and eighty-three pounds a year seems a large sum to an inexperienced girl; quite sufficient to purchase everything that might be wanted for a fireside.
Take it up, cut it into strips three or four inches long, put it back into the pot, with the liquor it was boiled in, with a tea cup of rice to three pounds of veal.
About eighty horses, at three pounds each, and a hundred and fifty sheep, at three pounds per score.
On arriving at home with my prize I found it scaled fully thirty-three pounds, so that the fish when entire must have weighed 100 lbs.
Then the hard-faced man came back again and offered twenty-three pounds.
He offered twenty-three pounds for me; but that was refused, and he walked away.
There were poor men trying to sell a worn-out beast for two or three pounds, rather than have the greater loss of killing him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three pounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
