Sentences with phrase «half kilo»

Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure, finding 8,740 kilos of the drug hidden among 1,080 boxes of bananas in a shipping container at the southern port of Algeciras.

A police report itemizes more than $ 600,000 in items stolen in a burglary at their home a few years ago, including two Swiss watches, HK$ 200,000 ($ 25,600) in cash, and a kilo of gold.

And he said, «Did you know it sells for $ 60,000.00 a kilo in the United States?»»

William was present for the birth at 8:34 am (0734 GMT) and the princess weighed in at eight pounds and three ounces (3.7 kilos).

«The drone was used to carry cocaine to Panama, it had capacity to transport 10 kilos [22 pounds] on each trip and to travel a distance of 100 kilometers [62 miles],» Acevedo said, adding that the drugs were hidden and awaiting transport to Panama, where another group of criminals would retrieve them.

A kilo of rice now costs as much as $ 14, a kilo of sugar $ 20 and olive oil is $ 44.

Finance Minister Carlos Leitao said more than 42,000 kilos of cannabis would be produced in Quebec, even if five of the six companies named in the deals are headquartered in other provinces.

After its processed and turned into power, that kilo can fetch $ 30,000 or more in the US.

The amount of cocaine seized in the country also rose by nearly half, the UNODC said, from 253,591 kilos in 2015 to 378,260 kilos in 2016.

On the street, once that kilo is «stepped on» by cutting it to grams and adding fillers, its total value can exceed $ 100,000.

Creating an artificial market for wool with a price pegged at $ 8.75 a kilo was the loopiest example of this train of thought.

You'll sell another 50 kilos tomorrow.»

That's roughly 1,700 kilos a month.)

The informant recalled how Zambada — a pistol holstered to his belt, flanked by a small army of cartel gunmen dressed in federal police uniforms — counted out the kilos.

Explains Clancy: «If someone rips you off or someone stiffs you on 50 kilos, [do] you go out and do an act of violence against that guy and bring a bunch of heat on you and your organization?

In 2002, law enforcement officials in Chicago seized 3.5 kilograms (8 pounds) of meth; in 2012 they seized more than 70 kilos (155 pounds).

The Sinaloa cartel can buy a kilo of cocaine in the highlands of Colombia or Peru for around $ 2,000, then watch it accrue value as it makes its way to market.

Break it down into grams to distribute retail, and that same kilo sells for upward of $ 100,000 — more than its weight in gold.

The drug trade is a cash business — you can't buy kilos with your credit card.

Such a hypothesis, in our opinion, does much to explain the incongruity of a declining gold price while fundamentals for paper currency, and the US dollar in particular, obviously deteriorate; while demand for physical gold has exceeded new mine supply for several years running; and while above - ground 400 - ounce.999 gold bars located in London, New York, and other financial capitals (in cohabitation with speculative trading activity in paper markets) have steadily dwindled and disappeared into Asian financial centers reformulated as.9999 kilo bars.

These gold kilo bars would subsequently be shipped to physical buyers in Asia and ultimately be converted into jewellery or other investment products to meet consumer demand.

This metal then made its way to Switzerland, was converted into kilo bars, and shipped to Asia to satisfy the surge in demand in China, India as well as other parts of the region.

The Atlas - V is also (currently) less expensive to launch, on a cost - per - kilogram basis, than either of Orbital's commercial launch vehicles: capable of carrying 8,250 kilos to LEO, the «baseline» Atlas - V costs $ 109M per launch, which breaks down to roughly $ 13,200 a kilogram.

Bitcoin is accepted for the full purchase of the land and purchasers will be able to enjoy profits from the sale of the fruits on the international market, which sell for $ 4.99 - $ 8.99 a kilo on the Australian mainland.

That equates to $ 22.80 per 50 kilos.

A kilo of gold (about 2.2 pounds) is about the size of your IPhone but it's worth about US$ 40,000.

When it was his turn to be served, he asked the seller for a kilo of leeks.

This work, in 1997, led rice producers to «block» their rice, to refuse to deliver it to the national collection company which was buying a kilo of rice at a price lower than the cost of production at 112 francs CFA.

The immense mass of the earth attracts the relatively minute mass of our bodies, and so we stay on the surface of the planet even though it is whirling us around its center at about 1,600 kilo - meters per hour.

And the predators of herbivores have to eat ten kilos of herbivore to produce one kilo of their flesh.

This is because the herbivores have to eat ten kilos of plants to produce one kilo of flesh.

One isolated ridge - top in the Andean foothills of western Ecuador, only twenty square kilo - meters in area, lost as many as ninety unique plant species when the last of its forest was cleared to plant subsistence crops (Wolf 1987).

This observation was somewhat perplexing — how could a similar pepper demand 50 dollars a kilo in Sonora, yet here they were not worth picking off the plant to sell?

As usual, we're indulging in my mom's home cooked delicacies and consume the local berry harvest by the kilo.

There are lots of sites online that sell kilo bags of nuts, seeds, grains etc at much better prices than you'd get in a shop.

But that would be almost a kilo of dates for this recipe, it seems quite a lot to me.

My last lot cost # 8.99 a kilo... which is pretty good.

I also go through a few kilos of lettuces a week.

In the large municipal market of Hermosillo, I bought a kilo for 500 pesos ($ 50).

Raw, shell - on shrimp are often frozen in 2 - kilo or 5 - pound blocks, as is crabmeat.

A kilo was 4 euros.

The month of June started out at 99.6 kilos and since I am now down to 94.7 kilos it is a total weight loss of 4.9 kilos in this month.

If I continue in this speed I might reach my goal of 90 kilos already in the end of next month.

Still staying at over 1 kilo per week which is quite good considering I am now very close to having been on the keto diet for 5 months (started in 4th of February).

In a corner, a team of volunteer workers from the community help to sort 10,000 pairs of donated socks into 1 kilo bags of socks so each charity receives a mix of sock sizes.

Hi I'm on a bit of a mission to drop a couple of kilos.

not a fan of pasta dishes with 20 kilos of cheese in it!

We came home with 3 kilos of funnel chanterelles (and some of this season's last chanterelles too!).

If I'm feeling yucky or if have put on a few kilos I have no one to blame but myself.

We get waffles cooked fresh on the street here in Bangkok for a paltry 40 cents Sometimes I eat seven in a week — it's easy to see where my 10 kilo weight gain since I moved to Thailand has come from, LOL.