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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pack-camel could carry a load of some six hundredweight or 300 kilograms.
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An acre became a field, a hundredweight a ton, and a guinea became a fortune.
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Digging up danger ... half a hundredweight of bullets in a rose bed.
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He's so underfed, his weight is three hundredweight below normal.
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The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag.