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  • Females, or "roes," can actually hit the eight-pound mark.

    F&S Hook Shots, Episode 1: American Shad 2009

  • Hilton Garden Inn guests can check out a Stay Fit kit, including pilates band and an eight-pound abs ball.

    Business or Pleasure, Health Is Hot for Hotels Anya Martin 2011

  • As part of Kate Gilmore's "She Bangs," for more than an hour, five women in pink cocktail dresses and black-patent leather open-toed heels smashed eight-pound sledgehammers into plaster blocks that broke and flew into the air and onto guests.

    At Art Parties, Making and Breaking a Scene Marshall Heyman 2011

  • One study found that eight weeks of acupuncture was associated with an eight-pound weight loss.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • Not much later, a friend delivered an eight-pound baby girl, stillborn at forty weeks.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullan As part of Kate Gilmore's 'She Bangs,' five women in pink cocktail dresses and black-patent leather open-toed heels smashed eight-pound sledgehammers into plaster blocks that broke and flew into the air and onto guests.

    At Art Parties, Making and Breaking a Scene Marshall Heyman 2011

  • The format of the routine is similar to Bar Method insofar as each weight interval is followed by stretching, and you begin with arm weights, but you use eight-pound weights instead of three, then push-ups, tricep dips, legs, seat, and then abs, but Physique 57 incorporates a greater variety of movements, and the use of a playground ball.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • The format of the routine is similar to Bar Method insofar as each weight interval is followed by stretching, and you begin with arm weights, but you use eight-pound weights instead of three, then push-ups, tricep dips, legs, seat, and then abs, but Physique 57 incorporates a greater variety of movements, and the use of a playground ball.

    Meg Hemphill: A Review of 3 Top Barre Workouts Meg Hemphill 2011

  • One study found that eight weeks of acupuncture was associated with an eight-pound weight loss.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • In the village of Brockworth, Gloucestershire, some have rebelled over what they see as the hijacking of an event in which competitors chase an eight-pound cheese rolled down a steep, grassy slope.

    Honestly, This Part of England Has the World's Biggest Liars Alistair MacDonald 2011

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