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We anticipate a 15.5% increase in line speed, an 13.4% reduction in cycle time and a 32% boost in through-put (measured in pounds per hour) with this new furnace technology.

We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

To go from a little, skinny kid coming in here from Indiana, weighing 215 pounds or whatever, to where he is now? ... It's unreal.

When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

We have left out tens of thousands of pounds of food and water to extend their lives.

We have learned that the baby was full-term. She weighed about 7 pounds when she was found. We've also learned she was found inside a brown plastic grocery bag that actually came from K-Mart.

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

There is a U-shaped footing around the base of the shelter, so that when we pour wet concrete on the unit they anchor firmly in the ground. Then we continue to pour concrete -- up to 12,000 pounds of concrete.

The proposal as presented to the (union) today is both unfair and unacceptable and does not represent a starting point for negotiations. This may be legal, but is morally wrong. This change alone has the effect of reducing existing pension pots by 13,300 pounds ($23,000) on average.

We'll see how dedicated I am to the treadmill. That's the only way to get rid of it. I'm not a doctor, but I know 50 pounds less would be nice not to carry around, on your joints, on your internal organs, all that mess.

Wyandotte County Lake was stocked with 11,000 pounds of trout.

The defense did a fantastic job. That's what we expect at West Point. We expect that from these players whether they weigh 250 pounds or 150 pounds. They just needed to be game-tested. I knew they were quick. I just needed to see if they would hit somebody.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

The credo of the average American is ""all things in moderation"". This is the same average American that is about 20 pounds overweight and has a one out of four chance of dying from heart disease.

We'll still be out-weighed 75 pounds a man, (but) at the very least we have a quick offensive line.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Pound for pound, your show is the best of its kind. I'm always learning from your great content!

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

Donald Trump is on the show tonight. Donald is a big man, I think 230 pounds -- 235 with cologne.

There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.

We built it with three straight months of work and 20,000 pounds of steel from a South Jersey rail yard.

We pick in Sun City only. And we've picked at least 600 different homes and some of them several times, over the course of the years. We've picked over a half-million pounds since we began.

We as a tire manufacturer have recommended a tire pressure on these tires of 30 PSI, ... We believe very strongly that 30 PSI provides consumers with additional safety margin. With 30 PSI, the Explorer can handle over 400 pounds extra load.

We (collected) about 5,000 pounds last year, and we would like to reach that goal this year.

When Nick visited the BHSU campus, he impressed our coaches with his speed and quickness. He is very young and will need to develop strength and add a few pounds in the next couple years.

We thought that 2004 was a turbulent year, but 2005 well surpassed it... In the circumstances a profit of 70.2 million pounds is satisfactory.

We're not jealous of the guy getting a million pound bonus. We just want out 6.70 pounds for God sakes.

Those allow us to carry about 180 pounds of coffee pretty much within a five-mile radius.

We go through approximately 20 gallons of pancake batter a day. Bacon? We probably go through 85 to 90 pounds (a day). I don't think you can change the Southern biscuits and gravy and pancakes. These people love them. ... The faces I see today, I will see tomorrow.

We are shipping between 55,000 and 60,000 pounds of high-quality beef weekly to Japan. We are diligently following the rules, proud of our product and therefore very frustrated that illegal product would get there and, two, frustrated that the Japanese government would close imports to every U.S. company.

We average 3,500 pounds of trash per boat on a single outing. Prior to Hurricane Wilma, we pulled in 4,000 pounds of debris onto a single boat.

We have to charge money for that because of the seven pounds of lead and glass inside the monitor. We know people can just take their monitors to the landfill for free, but we'd ask them to bring them to us instead.

What's he got, 50 pounds on him? You can't move Harper.

With clever PR and marketing it could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and potentially a nice film deal. If he gets piano lessons and becomes amazing then it could be millions.

Financially people are talking 10 million pounds a day in the short-term, but obviously longer-term there's the hit it takes in terms of customers and how it's perceived by clients.

We send about 45,000 pounds back to Baltimore five days a week.

We also clean up the cabinets and if necessary repaint them, before holding them in stores awaiting call-off by Orange. Refurbishment saves several thousands of pounds per cabinet compared to purchasing new product.

To serve 300, we'll need 175 chickens, 120 racks of ribs, and 140 pounds of pork. We'll have a full entourage of people to help serve.

The original deal translated into an average price of 535,000 pounds per pub, whilst the average price received per pub disposed of in this transaction is 329,000 per pub indicating a quality motive for this sale.

We have a bit to go from going to a bowl game every year to trying to win a national championship. But we're building. We're getting the talent where you don't have to put 50 pounds on them in order for them to play. We're improving from year-to-year and week-to-week.

Twenty-two million pounds is good news for a company in financial difficulty but it does not hide the fact that we think there is still a funding requirement.

Together, they emit 1,500 pounds of mercury annually.

You have to be 17 years old, 110 pounds and in relative good health to give blood.

You guys have the common snapping turtle, but he looks a bit different. (This one) gets a lot bigger. When he is all grown up, he will be 200 pounds and that big around (holds up his arms to make a large circle).

This year it's my year to shine. I'm at 186 pounds so I'm a legitimate 189-pounder this year.

What better way to work out than by the beach with my pup, Gucci? We power walk a bit, take in the beautiful beach air and constantly stop for some water so that all 5 pounds of him doesn't over-heated!

We tell them we'll take anybody if you can stand on skates, with 20 pounds of equipment on, you're not going to get hurt.

We went back out and collected bags and bags of the lichen, maybe 100 pounds or so. We had three captive elk in Jackson Hole and we brought them to our Laramie lab and began feeding them the lichen.

Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.

We're very happy with our offensive line, ... It's very big. Even with the two tight ends in, we're close to 250 pounds per man and they come off the ball well.

Every show is a mess at its first preview. No one's had enough time to rehearse in costumes, traffic patterns backstage haven't been worked out, machinery weighing thousands of pounds is being operated for the first time. And, also, it's the first time all the material you've written is before the public.

As the day goes on, we will be weighing the material and at the end of the day, we reveal how many pounds were collected. Through the years, when the kids and adults from civic organizations are wearing the same T-shirts, it's like a sea of Keep America Beautiful, so you can see the effort people are making and it's educating others.

At one point he gained 5 pounds and then lost 10.

At the time, that fish was just 15 pounds off the all-tackle record. It was just an incredible fish - six and a half feet long, and the girth was 36 inches.

Down she came, 1,500 pounds of longhorn beef with a speckled red hide, 4 feet of horns and a majestically glowering look in her red-rimmed eyes.

Craig is a great person, a great student and a great football player. He's the kind of guy who plays sideline to sideline. With his frame, he can add 20 to 30 pounds and will end up being a monster.

Coyotes are supposed to weigh under 30 pounds, ... We have some very large ones 45 pounds and over.

Dundee just outmanned us. They have 12 seniors and several kids who weigh 250 pounds or more. Our biggest goes 210, and we have 12 sophomores and one freshman on the team. We're athletic, but we're not big.

During the season, (May through July), we go through 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of ribs a week.

Five of the directors have spent a total of 1.1 million pounds buying shares in the past month ... so they clearly feel some positive things are happening.

Fishing is good. I haven't seen any reason to leave. There are some nice fish up here. We got two at 11.5 pounds (Tuesday).

Farmer weighs 180 pounds and is playing tackle. Frye and Roach barely played last year. Alcorn is a first-year player. Bryant played JV (junior varsity) last year. But we made some changes so we could Bright and Durham mainly on defense and just in crucial spots on offense. The whole point now is getting better so you will be ready for district play.

Fewer growers will be around, but they will grow more pounds on more acreage.

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry.

The unit at the University Hospital of North Tees has had pounds 10m spent on refurbishment over the last few years and to try and replicate this anywhere else would be absolute madness.

I should ask to be paid by the amount of pounds I coach.

I used all 200 pounds of my body to push Matt in.

They are a big, physical team that averages about 275 pounds on the offensive line, ... They are coached by former Cincinnati Bengal Bruce Kozerski so it should be a really interesting game.

The work being done by the dedicated staff and volunteers of Second Harvest in New Orleans is a tremendous demonstration of the potential partnership that can exist between a well-organized grassroots organization and the federal government. Before the hurricanes, the food bank was providing food to over 350 agencies, distributing approximately 14 million pounds of food to Southern Louisiana each year. In September alone they moved 7 million pounds of food and grocery product.

These additional costs represent good value for money against the cost of enforced returns which the National Audit Office has calculated to cost 11,000 pounds (19,800 US dollars) each on average.

It was to set a tone, ... Just because the average age on our team is 10 years older, just because they're 100 pounds bigger and a foot taller, we would not be the demure members of Congress. We would actually be aggressive.

The situation is that we have this first game which we are playing in Finland and then the second leg, ... Obviously we lose money coming out here - it'll cost us tens of thousands of pounds just to bring the club out. It depends on what kind of gate we get when we get back to Tannadice, and that depends on what kind of result we get tomorrow night.

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

The thing that shocks you is how much fruit is in one tree. Once we picked 400 pounds from one apple tree - we couldn't even fit into the car.

Some were wondering if he could get above 300 pounds so this probably solidified him right at the top.

Tell the kid to gain 10-15 pounds and we'll see him in four years.

Ten thousand pounds of food feeding 20,000 people. That gave us pause.

Ryan got a big win at 215 and that's good for him too. He's slowly making his way to 189 pounds and he's beginning to look better and move better and if we keep him healthy, Ryan is going to be a good 189-pounder.

Ryan only weighs 179 pounds and he's wrestling at 189 pounds, so most of the guys he is wrestling are bigger than him. Most of the guys he is wrestling are cutting weight to wrestle. For him to do what he did shows the type of heart he has. And he decided he would go 189 so his brother (Sean) could go 171. That shows you what type of person he is.

Ralph looked down at 10 pounds of extra him that wasn't there last Christmas. In five months he had put on all this weight.

Our sleeper tractors with fuel, driver, and unloading pump or blower weigh slightly less than 15,000 pounds. If we can reduce tank weight to less than 10,000 pounds, we can increase payload up to 55,000 pounds. Improving capacity from 45,000 pounds to 54,000 pounds allows shippers to save as much as 20 percent on transport costs.

Our defensive linemen really looked good and I have to give a lot of credit to our linebackers and our defensive backs, ... Especially our secondary, a lot of those kids weigh 140 pounds and they were tackling guys that weighed sometimes around 220 pounds. And they weren't getting dragged, they came out and popped them.

People say, 'I didn't recognize you.' I wish I could feel the same, but I'm not anywhere near where I want to be. But it's a good feeling to know that people see the difference. I'm 33 pounds lighter with everything I do. Good stuff.