He started moving some serious weight, as they call it, four pounds at a time.
Whirlpool exerts scrubbing pressure of up to four pounds per square inch.
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All told, this 14-inch system weighs about four pounds, making it not only the biggest Chromebook on the market, but the heaviest.
So far she's shed four pounds in four weeks, but the pace feels slow compared with her diet regimens in the past, she said.
Geeks will be more intrigued by Dell's new 0.9-inch-thick laptop weighing just a bit less than four pounds and available in black, white or red.
Instead, the AHA advises dieters to drop pounds in the traditional way -- by reducing fat intake and aiming for a weight loss of two to four pounds each month.
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Incidentally, this amounts to four pounds of body fat.
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His decision to ban all nuclear tests would preclude the U.S. from conducting even extremely low-yield tests (for example, those that produce as little of a blast as the equivalent of four pounds of high explosive) as part of the nuclear stockpile stewardship program.
Yes, they're technically "ultraportables" (which we usually define as being any relatively small laptop and under four pounds), but to say an Eee PC is in the same class as, say, the Lenovo X300, the VAIO TZ, or the MacBook Air would be kind of misleading.
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The size of the gap between spending and tax revenues - with the government taking in just three pounds for every four pounds it spends - makes it likely that all the big revenue raisers - (income tax, national insurance, and VAT) may have to be tapped in the future.
We swung by the company's trailer to get some hands-on with the T430u -- the first such machine that we've seen packing discrete graphics from NVIDIA. At only 21mm thick and under four pounds, the first ThinkPad Ultrabook is certainly svelte and falls on the more portable end of the spectrum for 14-inch PCs.
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Four trillion pounds: the possible value of oil and gas under Scottish waters.
They were ten or twelve feet tall, each four hundred pounds or more.
Before the onset of his disease, a rare incurable neurological disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus, he was six-foot four and 200 pounds.
He weighed, Cynthia would guess, no more than four or five pounds, if that, and he was clearly not nearly as healthy as his sister, Mbabli, had been as an infant.
Lusakabela is a month and a half old, but weighs just four and a half pounds.
But when Chris was able to lose 40 pounds in four months to meet the requirements, she saw how badly he wanted it.
He lost 30 pounds over about four months with the Atkins diet, and thinks Smithfield's new range of lean pork could do well in a growing market for low-carbohydrate foods.
Scott, at five feet four and two hundred and ten pounds, cut a memorable figure.
And if it continues to grow at that rate, it will be lending half a billion pounds within three or four years.
They caught four fish weighing 7.6 pounds and won the competition.
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Banded with steel and coiled with thick rope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.
Let's repeat that: four hundred and forty seven billion pounds.
Standing at a nonthreatening four feet and weighing about 95 pounds, the C-3PO wanna-be can move around the house, flipping light switches, opening doors and doing simple tasks at tables and benches.
Sanofi-Aventis ' (nyse: SNY - news - people ) drug, Acomplia, helped overweight patients lose an average of 19 pounds--about four times as much as dieters on a sugar pill.
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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He was only five feet four and a hundred and forty-five pounds, yet he could take a man forty pounds heavier, press him in the air sixteen times with one hand, and hold a mug of beer in the other without spilling it.
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