half-a-pound

Like, can you give me an idea about -- say, it's a-- it's a pound or it's a half-a-pound.

CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

The second customer wanted a glass of orangeade, the third, half-a-pound of sweets.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

A good lady of our congregation sent me this morning half-a-pound of butter.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

“If you please, half-a-pound of currants, four pounds of sugar, and three pounds of rice for the kutia.”

Childhood 2003

First time you come over to my house for dinner, you know, the family has just met you, and my mother will get upset about something, go out to the kitchen and come back in with a half-a-pound of butter and smear it across your face.

CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2001 2001

These new means of production signify, practically, that each citizen of the country will get a half-a-pound more of fish from these 17 ships alone.

CARDENAS LAUNCHING OF 17 FISHING BOATS 1963

Some people could get no meat, and when the Colonel awoke to the situation he suddenly limited the allowance of each adult to half-a-pound _per diem_.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

Take half-a-pound of sugar, a quarter of caviare, a quarter of calipash,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 Various

A lady, known to be in his interest, was seen buying half-a-pound of tea, in the shop of Mr. Fad, the grocer, for which she paid with a whole sovereign, _and took no change_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various

No sugar without a card, and then only half-a-pound, and they do say it'll only be a quarter soon.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 Various