The average Japanese person consumes more than 154 pounds of fish annually (or about a half pound a day).
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For 50 years--1920 to 1970--annual garlic consumption in the U.S. languished at a measly half a pound per person.
And we do mean hefty -- this laptop apparently tips the scales at 1.88 Kg, which puts it a touch over the four pound mark. 4.1 pounds certainly isn't shoulder busting, but it's a solid half a pound more than you'd expect from a machine of this size.
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At the Liberal Democrat conference, Danny Alexander announced the creation of a new half a billion pound infrastructure fund paid for from under-spending of departmental budgets.
While teenagers and women shovel in a third of a pound of cheese curds, men are expected to consume half a pound.
They declared victory after producing a half-pound of Bio-PDO from one pound of glucose, a 500-fold gain in yield.
The control systems weighs a little more than half a pound, fits in the palm of the hand and operates on a single battery for the better part of a year.
Your body can build at most about a half-pound of muscle each week, so if you eat too many extra calories trying to build more muscle, you will gain fat, too.
For more than two months, researchers at Rockefeller University in New York and Harvard tested several different types of low fat diets on 18 people with normal cholesterol levels, including a diet containing more than half a pound of steamed shrimp a day.
Steven Sasson invented the digital camera itself, starting at Kodak in the 1970s with an eight-and-a-half-pound box connected to a magnetic tape drive and a TV set, which produced a .01 megapixel image.
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Five glasses of milk, five yogurts or almost half a pound of cheese would deliver 1500 milligrams of calcium, but most Americans don't get even half this amount on a given day.
Arthur weighed in bang on the 130lb super-featherweight limit, Cook was half a pound under.
Everybody else, though, can safely eat one meal (half a pound) a month from the Hudson and nearby waters.
Keep in mind, though, that this sophisticated design makes the Rove 20 almost half a pound heavier than the Tap 20.
The full-size keyboard built right into the cover makes work easy, the very smart kickstand makes watching a movie or Skyping a friend a delight, the less than a pound-and-a-half weight makes a great alternative to a laptop, and the many other features make it fun for work and play.
Wigan recovered from a half-time deficit to pound Wakefield Trinity in an 11-try victory, including two hat-tricks.
At most, Kim could probably lose an additional half-pound to pound a week, "but any more than that and she would probably be losing water weight and muscle, " Jampolis said.
The pound-and-a-half weight of a current iPad sheds the tremendous amount of weight that would normally be needed for a conventional in-flight entertainment system built into the headrest, which on a typical 375-seat 767 could see the iPads pay for themselves within years, if not sooner.
This ultra-portable tablet looks and feels great, measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound.
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Pound for pound, aluminium is up to two-and-a-half times stronger than conventional steel and can absorb twice the energy in a crash.
Weighing just over one pound, the sleek half-inch-thin device features a transflective display that combines both transmissive and reflective modes for ideal readability in all light conditions.
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Before Taylor went to Bethlehem, a team of seventy-five men loaded ninety-two-pound pigs of iron onto rail cars at a rate of twelve and a half tons per man per day.
The cages would be behemoths: 82, 500 cubic meters--half the size of a football field across--big enough to hold 1, 000 tons of 100-pound ahi.
The AIRarm prototype is essentially a Packbot whose metal arm's been replaced with an inflatable version able to lift four times its own half-pound weight.
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