Canterbury currency

Usage examples of pounds.

Earthside that would be over a hundred pounds and I could flap forever and never get off the ground.

But with his inconsiderable mass having a lunar weight of only twenty pounds, he was no burden.

He knew what was in it, rolls of microfilm and colorfilm, a few souvenirs, toilet articles, various irreplaceables-fifty pounds of mass.

He helped a metalsmith struggle over the hill with a portable atomic heater, difficult to handle because of a mass of eight hundred pounds, but weighing here only sixteen pounds.

At half of fifteen pounds per square inch, and allowing for the arch of the roof, that's a load of one and an eighth billion pounds.

Synthetic spider silk, This gauge we're using for the roof has a tensile strength of four thousand pounds a running inch.

With a rim about eighteen hundred thousand inches around, the maximum pull at the point of anchoring would be about six hundred and twenty-five pounds per inch.

Seventeen pounds -- two more than Earth sea-level and nearly twice what we use in the city.

In gliding I support a mere ten pounds on each arm -- shucks, on Earth you work harder than that lying in bed.

In the meantime, he was encouraged to keep the routine of a semi-invalid himself in order to recover the twenty-five pounds he had lost in two days and two nights, and to make up for the heavy strain on his heart during the last night.

For every pound burned in the Charon there were at least a hundred pounds used in power plants on the surface.

But I had three hundred pounds mass not a whit reduced by lowered weight.

Instead I was about to say that he couldn't possibly have stuffed several pounds of paper into Flexible Frank, he was already stuffed like a goose when I remembered that I had built a temporary shelf across the bottom of his wheel-chair base to hold tools while I worked on him.

A profit of eight pounds and fourteen shillings, she wrote in click black ink needy on the bottom line.

In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy's back pay and a few pounds he'd managed to save himself.