Sara Cox

In the 80s, mum used to make a beautiful beef in red wine sauce, which I thought very exotic. And an incredible chilli con carne, with baked beans so it wasn't too spicy for us. Later, when I asked for the recipes, she said: 'I don't know - they were Colman's or Schwartz's packet mixes.' It completely ruined it for me.

English Entertainer

Jamie Vardy

When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.

English Athlete

Trinny Woodall

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

English Designer

Nicola Roberts

I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in my body that's from a packet. I used to eat microwave ready meals, because we were so busy, but now I like to eat clean.

English Musician

Rosalia

I'm trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won't lie - there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.

Spanish Singer

Jo Brand

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

British Comedian

Satish Kumar

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

Indian Activist

Molly Yeh

Don't plant too deeply. Pay attention to the directions on the seed packets as far as how deep and how close together to plant the seeds.

American Chef

Davina McCall

I was a waitress for a couple of years when I was 18 and with my first pay packet, I paid for an hour's cleaning once a week.

John Updike

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

American Novelist

The term frequently relates to physical items you can touch, often wrapped.

Tangible Objects

Used for small or individual quantities, not for large or bulk items.

Small Quantities

Commonly used in everyday English, especially in a shopping or kitchen context.

Everyday Use

Refers to chunks of digital data; fundamental concept for understanding networking.

Data Transmission

Mainly used in computing contexts, might confuse in everyday conversation.

Networking Jargon

Often metaphorical when talking about groups, implying a tight or close-knit arrangement.

Figurative Use

Less common and more informal when referring to groups of people, often in British English.

Not for People

Slang indicating a large sum of money; informal and casual.

Slang for Money

The exact amount implied can vary widely, but it's always significant.

Relative Wealth

 I found quite a few packets of biscuits amongst all the fruit and vegetables and everything else that was in there. And I thought, well this could serve as a symbol for today. So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine. That's what's in fields around the world every single year. The first biscuit we're going to lose

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 this jigsaw it's about taking those artistic people in your community and doing some fabulous designs in those raised beds to explain to people what's growing there because there's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with a bit of an instruction packet on the top so we have some people who design these things it looks like

How we can eat our...

 And we saw that, where you have all the computers of the world. And if you remember, it was a kind of green screen with cursors, and there was really not much to do, and if you wanted to connect it, you connected it from one computer to another computer. And what you had to do was -- if you wanted to participate in this, you had to share packets of information.

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 Have advocates keep a set in their car. Tape a set to your refrigerator. When you show up in the E.R. with this packet, your admission is streamlined in a material way. You're going to need caregivers. You'll need to assess your personality and financial situation to determine whether an elder care community

Judy MacDonald Johnston:...

 sheep body which actually raises an interesting biological problem we have two kinds of dna in our bodies we have our nucleic dna that everybody thinks of as our dna but we also have dna in our mitochondria which are the energy packets of the cell that dna is passed down through our

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 so why birds why birds well the way that I've set the piano up I think it sounds really bird-like the way that these devices kind of flutter and twitch and pluck and stab at the piano strings is perhaps the sound that you would hear if a bird were to land on a piano and packet

When nature, sound and...

 so yes they are yeah these are packets in Tanzania and a pack that's in northern conservancies of the Mara and sometimes very very rarely do they make an appearance in the Triangle and after two years of being here basically all year in eight months if you want to call it that

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 Once the packets arrive, their data is reassembled into the text, audio, or video that was originally sent. Since the days of the earliest computer networks, the internet has undergone a tremendous transformation, while also transforming the world that created it.

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 and so romantic i have something to ask you my dear wendy would you do me the honor of taking my paw all right you two pair of losers don't mind me i'll just squeeze it in there we lovely you've not seen a packet of nice

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 that's quite a task. That's food, fuel, clothes, even toilet roll and toothpaste. That's what we do, and when we leave we manage it down to the last drop of diesel and the last packet of food. No experience in my life

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