noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of common sense (= a very small amount )
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Anyone with an ounce of common sense would have realised that was a silly thing to do.
fluid ounce
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
weigh
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It weighs seven pounds twelve ounces , is ten and a half inches long and nine inches wide.
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They didn't weigh more than a few ounces .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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February gold fell 90 cents to $ 399. 30 an ounce on Commodity Exchange.
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Hardly an ounce of flesh anywhere.
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It was the centrifuge that yielded the last cull, a final ounce of bits of metal.
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It weighs seven pounds twelve ounces, is ten and a half inches long and nine inches wide.
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The Warriors needed every lean ounce of effort Smith provided in the fourth quarter.
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This was the real Janir, I thought, the one without an ounce of shyness or indecision.
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Where a cereal is very light, like cornflakes, an ounce will comfortably fill the usual breakfast bowl.