Example Sentences

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One cat can yield four to five catties.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

The company said it had accepted 860,000 catties of garlic in deals involving 30 homes.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2022

The garlic promotion attracted 852 visits and 30 transactions involving 860,000 catties of garlic during the 16 days it was available, the advertisement said.

From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2022

Not even ten catties of gold, say refugees from Changchun, can buy an air ticket from the dying northeastern capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is sold at 800 taels per 100 catties, so that the whole quantity imported costs 47,600,000 taels, or £14,280,000, the price per mace being a little more than 3½d.

From A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Haines, Charles Reginald