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I had gained 25 pounds.
I started feeling better, I even lost that 25 pounds.
This woman will expose herself to toxic phosphorous, release four pounds of toxic lead into her childrens' environment, which is from copper.
And they didn't know how far they would really have to go, and they overloaded the horses with hundreds and hundreds of pounds of stuff.
And this one weighed 92 pounds and took two people to operate and cost a quarter of a car.
But three years later, by 1908, it weighed 40 pounds.
Well, if you print it out, it looks like a thousand pounds of material that you're carrying around all the time.
And, working on the idea that the cheapest electric toaster would also be the simplest to reverse-engineer, I went and bought the cheapest toaster I could find, took it home and was kind of dismayed to discover that, inside this object, which I'd bought for just 3.49 pounds, there were 400 different bits made out of a hundred-plus different materials.
Doctors insert a catheter into your chest, which is attached to a pump that weighs about four-and-a-half pounds.
If they do so at the appropriate time, the black box lights up and a panda bear pounds a drum.
A lot of us, we're not really happy when we see a video of an Egyptian man who's eating the trash while others are stealing billions of Egyptian pounds from the wealth of the country.
long, a thousand pounds.
Because each and every day at our recycling plants around the world we handle about one million pounds of people's discarded stuff.
The trouble with Doug Engelbart's system was that the computers in those days cost several million pounds.
So for a personal computer, a few million pounds was like having a personal jet plane; it wasn't really very practical.
And this includes 5,000 pounds of mercury from our dental fillings alone every year.
It's about seven pounds, which is probably about what my arm would weigh if I lost it right here.
The first floor held nearly 10,000 pounds of garbage, and that included the better part of a Dodge Caravan, cut into chunks with a reciprocating saw.
I was 64 pounds.
At that point, I had gained four pounds, so I was 68 pounds.
I think it sort of captures me well, not that I have any divine connections whatsoever, but I like my facial expression there, because, if I've got a worried look on my face, it's not simply because I've got 20 pounds of squash over my head, but it's because I've got some pretty heavy topics on my mind.
But each snare drum and harness weighed about 40 pounds each, and I have a disease called Progeria.
So just to give you an idea, I weigh only about 50 pounds.
So after continuous work, we made a snare drum apparatus that weighs only about 6 pounds.
They weigh thousands of pounds, are not by any means agile.
So these are helicopters with four rotors, and they're roughly a meter or so in scale, and weigh several pounds.
can support a static load of 660 pounds.
CA: And to carry a payload of more than a few pounds?
2.5 times 10 to the 16th pounds per cubic feet.
Five hundred seventy-one million two hundred thirty thousand pounds of paper towels are used by Americans every year.
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