2.2-pound unit

Usage examples of kilo.

Not surprisingly, Ake lost his balance and tumbled to the ground, disappearing under hundreds of kilos of insistent scout dogs.

I shall put on about twenty kilos - I have a suit and shirt designed to cope with the excess avoirdupois -fatten my cheeks, tint hair and moustache, wear a sinister scar and a black leather glove.

In his own evil way, Bill Crum must have had loyalties and, for him, a kilo of gold was peanuts.

In one pass, a fine-mesh fyke net with a motorized winch can pull in nine to fifteen hundred kilos.

Then the man bought a kilo of swordfish, paid for it, and went home, his head singing with the kif he had smoked.

The leftmost platoon of Kilo Company had already broken into an arm of open land that poked into the swamp.

The indication is that he was the man who paid one kilo of gold to get Van Luk Wan released.

The field was rated at a thousand kilos and there was no way a man or mue, no matter how string, could break its grip.

Pedas were the simplest, most common sweetmeat, available daily in the mithaigalli of any part of the city for a few paisa a kilo.

He and his comrades had loaded more than fifty kilos of high explosive and a timer under the seat of the pedicab and in the steel tubing of the frame.

We paused only to plug detonators into the four kilos of plastique that we had previously molded around sheaves of water, gas, and other pipes that crossed or paralleled some portions of the tunnels.

We crossed the domed chamber, pausing four times to deposit the last four kilos of plastique among the machinery.

When at last we released the vacuole, or it collapsed, released our reprieved lives, the very subatomic particles we were made of would become literally the last things in all the cosmos, and in further trillions and gazillions of frigid years even their feeble few kilos would have evaporated to nothingness.

Kilo for Kilo, the shell was as valuable as purpose-designed microchips from factories operating across the Miffor.

This morning I went to the meat counter and they were selling mortadella sausage at 168 roubles a kilo.