One banana has perhaps 15 Bq, there are usually more than 6 or 7 bananas to a kilo of them and thus a kilo of bananas has more than 100 Bq.

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In November of that year the Mexicans agreed to a price floor of 46 cents a kilo for their exports.

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After two years of tinkering he created a 7-kilo version of the ultraviolet water sterilizers that are commercially available in the U.S. for home wells with contamination problems.

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Aspect software helped IBM realize that it was using a clutter of different kilo-ohm resistors when one version would do.

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They were threatened and protected, but a set of fins went for five hundred dollars a kilo, in the right hands.

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Massa was hit on the helmet by a metal spring, the size of a drink can and weighing almost a kilo, which fell off fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello's Brawn car.

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When she decided that my visit, not having included any museums, was short on cultural content, she took me to the Palacio del Gobierno and showed me a three-hundred-kilo tlayuda made of real masa and covered with, instead of beans and meat, depictions of life in Oaxaca.

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Silver is about 800 euros a kilo, a mere 20 per cent the value of truffle.

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The nation's courts, acting on their own, ordered seizure of wholesale stocks and fixed a third price, for retail sugar, at 40 rupees per kilo, which was half the price in neighboring Afghanistan.

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