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.
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.
They declared victory after producing a half-pound of Bio-PDO from one pound of glucose, a 500-fold gain in yield.
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.
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.
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.
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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While teenagers and women shovel in a third of a pound of cheese curds, men are expected to consume half a pound.
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.
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 average Japanese person consumes more than 154 pounds of fish annually (or about a half pound a day).
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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.
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