Cwt Sentence Examples

The average area occupied by it in the years from 1896 to 1905 was 1,043,000 acres, the total average production being 262,364,000 cwt.

Taking into account the variations in wages and in the price of wheat, it may be calculated that the number of hours of work requisite to earn a sum equal to the price of a cwt.

Less than 20 years later the lineal length allowed each had increased to nearly 1.4 ft., and the weight to nearly 14 cwt.

The imports of potatoes into the United Kingdom vary, to some extent inversely; thus, the low production in 1897 was accompanied by an increase of imports from 3,921,205 cwt.

The mean values at the foot of the table-they are not, strictly speaking, exact averages-indicate the average yields per acre in the United Kingdom to be about 31 bushels of wheat, 33 bushels of barley, 40 bushels of oats, 28 bushels of beans, 26 bushels of peas, 44 tons of potatoes, 134 tons of turnips and swedes, 184 tons of mangels, 32 cwt.

Again, although from the richest old permanent meadow-lands very heavy crops of hay are taken season after season, the general average yield of permanent grass is about 3 cwt.

For purposes of comparison it would be much better if the yields of corn crops were estimated in cwt.

The column headed bacon and hams indicates clearly enough that the imports of fresh meat did not displace those of preserved pig meat, for the latter expanded from 4,715,000 cwt.

The column for all dead meat includes not only the items tabulated, but also [[Table Xv]].-Quantities of Dead Meat imported into the United Kingdom, 1891-1905-Thousands of Cwt.

They were all steers of three to four years old, one being a Hereford weighing 20 cwt.

In the 1899 show, with 311 entries of cattle, and the age limited to three years, no beast reached the weight of a ton, the heaviest animal being a crossbred(Aberdeen-Angus and Shorthorn)which,at three years old, turned the scale at 19 cwt.

Out of 301 entries in 1905 the top weight was 19 cwt.

It is paid for at the rate of from 45 to cents per cwt.

For each ton of soap to be made from 12 to 16 cwt.

Besides fruits of nearly all kinds there are cultivated in the low moist regions the sugar-cane, the tea, coffee and tobacco plants, arrowroot, cayenne pepper, cotton, &c. The area under sugar in 1905 was 45,840 acres and the produce 532,067 cwt.

Glass mixtures containing lead are melted in covered, beehive-shaped crucibles holding from 12 to 18 cwt.

When, in April 1908, Mr Asquith became premier, and Mr Lloyd George chancellor of the exchequer, the sugar convention The world's trade in cane and beet sugar in tons avoirdupois at decennial periods from 1840 to 1870, inclusive, and yearly from 1871 to 1901 inclusive, with the percentage of beet sugar and the average price per cwt.

Quantities of raw and refined cane and beet sugar in tons avoirdupois imported into the United Kingdom in 1870 and in 1875, and yearly from 1880 to 1901 inclusive, with the consumption per head of the population in lb and the price per cwt.

Experiments have shown that excellent effects can be obtained by applying 5 or 6 cwt.

The loss of mercury is about the same, from 5 to 6 cwt.

The weight is about 15 cwt.

This is done by passing a loop at the upper end round a pulley mounted in a travelling frame, to which is attached a weight of about 15 cwt.

If artificial manures are used, a usual dressing consists of 2 or 3 cwt.

The yield of straw is from 15 to 20 cwt.

The leaves are gathered by hand, and from 2 to 3 cwt.

The first cork harvest was gathered in 1890, when 1474 cwt.

In 'spring the horse and hand hoe must be used, and the previous application of r cwt.

To give a rough idea, however, it may be said that its safe crushing load would be about a cwt.

At first it was feared that such bars would have a tendency to slip through the concrete in which they were embedded, but experiments have shown that if the bar is not painted but has a natural rusty surface a very considerable adhesion between the concrete and steel - as much as 2 cwt.

Between 1860 and 1874 Messrs Bell Brothers manufactured the metal at Washington, near Newcastle, under Deville's supervision, producing nearly 2 cwt.

Provided it be rigid, the bed-plate of an engine is no better for weighing 30 cwt.

These salts of ammonia may be used at the rate of from 2 to 3 cwt.

Gypsum, or sulphate of lime, applied as a top-dressing at the rate of 2 to 3 cwt.

Pigs of this breed are very prolific, and they may be grown to enormous weights - over 11 cwt.

In one of its towers is the famous bell, called Maria Gloriosa, which bears the date 1497, and weighs 270 cwt.

It is usually sold in " tierces," that is, casks containing about 'o cwt.

The dried or " finished " soda-ash is ground to a pretty fine powder and is packed into wooden casks or " tierces," holding from io to about 20 cwt.

When it has completely cleared, the liquid caustic is ladled or pumped out into sheet-iron drums, holding about 6 cwt.

The total area under cotton in1905-1906was 201 million acres, and the export was 7,396,000 cwt.

Dairy-farming is also on the increase, and the foreign exports of butter rose from 1930 cwt.

Thus in the period considered the recorded maximum weight of fish landed at the east coast ports was 9,539, 11 4 cwt.

In the machines commonly used to weigh loads exceeding 2 cwt.

A passenger vessel requires from 2 to 4 cwt.

The rice exported from Rangoon in 1904-5 amounted to 28 million cwt.

In the wavelet spectrum that follows, an exact n FFT is used for the CWT's fast convolution.

The salt-pans at Cagliari and of Carloforte are of considerable importance; they are let by the government to contractors, who have the sole right of manufacture, but are bound to sell the salt necessary for Sardinian consumption at 35 centesimi (3d.) per cwt.; the government does not exercise the salt monopoly in Sardinia any more than in Sicily, but in the latter island the right of manufacture is unrestricted.

The charge of salt-cake (generally 3 cwt.), limestone and coal is roughly mixed and put upon the back-bed; when the front bed has become empty it is drawn forward and exposed to the full heat of the fire, with frequent stirring.

The 5824 lb (52 cwt.) of flax straw remaining lost in steeping 13 cwt., leaving 39 cwt.

The production of wool was 300,000,000 lb, as in the grease; tallow, 493,000 cwt.; butter, 500,000 cwt.; cheese, 42,000 cwt.; and bacon and hams, 110,000 cwt.