Examples of use of half a pound
1. We get half a pound of bread and three bowls of soup a day.
2. A letter packed with half a pound of explosives was mailed to his home and picked up by his daughter.
3. In 1'80, McCartney was arrested at Tokyo airport after customs officials discovered half a pound of marijuana in his luggage.
4. Harden/ My black cat‘s/ In your back garden." I associate the following with a Yorkshireman who worked in our market garden÷ "Half a pound of tuppenny rice/ Half a pound of treacle/ Mix it up and make it nice/ Pop goes the weasel!" He taught me this doggerel in the potting shed.
5. In a typical sequence, the animal first discovered a deep tree hollow suitable for bush babies, which are nocturnal and weigh about half a pound.