bbl.
Americanabbreviation
plural
bblsabbreviation
Example Sentences
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With oil stuck above $70 per bbl. and the Doha round of trade negotiations defunct, growth was bound to slacken.
From Time • May 2, 2011
According to the latest government estimate, 12,000 to 19,000 bbl. of oil are leaking from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico each day.
From Time • Jun. 3, 2010
Five thousand men--and a few women--work here, pumping 1.3 million bbl. a day down the trans-Alaska pipeline.
From Time Magazine Archive
The resulting drop in demand pushed oil to a measly $10 per bbl., forcing member states such as Saudi Arabia to curtail their generous government spending and confront popular unrest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The highest price of mess pork at Chicago during the last forty years, according to the Daily Trade Bulletin, was $44 per bbl. in 1864, and the lowest price $5.50 per bbl., paid in 1896.
From Home Pork Making by Fulton, A. W.
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