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And the UK government will be pushing up to 17 million pounds ($26.5 million) more to ensure the security of the Eurotunnel. – British Prime Minister David Cameron	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In Calais, the French government has already been pushing in for extra resources and extra police resources. And the UK government will pushing up to 17 million pounds ($26.5 million) more to ensure the security of the Eurotunnel. we are also adding fencing around the entrance to the tunnel in Coquelles. – British Prime Minister David Cameron	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I felt like a thousand pounds had lifted off my chest, i could breathe again. – Scott Barber	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've lost five pounds, welcome to the Mother Emanuel aerobics hour. – Norvel Goff	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is the first year we've got a hotel right on a Tube line direct to Wimbledon, and of course, no tubes, the hotel advised us to get a bus but the buses were so full we just got a taxi down, for 32 pounds. – Gill Hughes	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The hotel advised us to get a bus but the buses were so full we just got a taxi down, for 32 pounds. – Gill Hughes	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The tickets to go to Greece this weekend are really expensive, it isn't because of the season, it's because of the elections. For the (general) elections in January, I went back to vote and paid 100 pound)to go two days beforehand. This referendum when I'm leaving again two days before, the tickets are 300 pounds. – Dimitri Augustidis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I tried the day before yesterday to buy a coach ticket for 15 pounds from Nottingham to London and the website wouldn't let me. – Katerina Kyrgiou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They arrived at the worst possible time, they only had 40 pounds on Friday night ... after having paid for the hotel deposit, the first night there and other costs. – Dimitri Augustidis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This checklist of 10 reasons your internal thermostat is out of whack can help you get a handle on why you're chronically freezing your butt off. You're too thin Low body weight — defined as a BMI hovering around 18.5 or under — can chill you out for a couple of reasons. First, when you're underweight, you lack an adequate level of body fat to insulate you from cold temperatures, explained Maggie Moon, RD, a Los Angeles – based nutritionist. The other thing is, to maintain that low BMI, you have to reduce your food intake so you likely aren't eating very much at all. Skimping on calories puts the brakes on your metabolism, so you don't create enough body heat. Consider putting on a few pounds by loading up on whole, healthy foods that contain lots of protein, fat, and complex carbohydrates. RELATED : Subtle Signs of Eating Disorders Your Thyroid is out of whack Add cold intolerance to the long list of health issues you can blame on the butterfly-shaped gland in your neck. Always being cold is a telltale sign of hypothyroidism, which means Your Thyroid doesn't secrete enough thyroid hormone. – Holly Phillips	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our gross oil revenues are expected to amount to three million one hundred and eighty six South Sudanese pounds. – David Deng Athorbei	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are now very close to our expected long-term investment rate of 800 million to 1 billion pounds per year, while capital from the UK government was an important start it will not be enough to sustain our level of investment. From the outset it was always part of the plan that we would need to raise additional capital from the private sector to supplement government funding. – Shaun Kingsbury	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Look at me! a hundred and five pounds, a grown man and no education. I may be mistaken, but I think the years I've put in the cotton mills stunted my growth. They kept me from getting any schooling. I had to stop school after third grade and now I need the education I didn't get. – Reuben Dagenhart	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We go to that high altitude because it simulates the atmospheric conditions on Mars, mars has a very thin atmosphere. With current space technologies, NASA can land about 1 metric tonne, or 2,200 pounds on the surface of Mars, roughly equivalent to the Curiosity Rover’s weight. – Steve Jurczyk	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It was absolute a shock. I was 31, 6 feet tall and [176 pounds], and I’ve always been fit and healthy. To find out that I only have 20 percent function remaining in both kidneys, I was shocked, my family were shocked. I was three weeks out from my wedding. It was all very unknown and a very scary time. – Nik Pinchbeck	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When I was approaching 30, I was [nearly] 360 pounds and I wasn't very active at all. I decided I'd just start hiking. – Kara Richardson Whitely	Found on CNN 8 years ago
One day, [Stephen] came downstairs, i turned around and looked at him, and I said, ‘What have you done?’ He was suddenly looking very slim … he said, ‘I think I lost 8 or 10 pounds.’. – Bonnie Yafa	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I've come a long way since then, two hundred eighty five pounds may sound like a lot to you, but to me it's really good. – Scott Craig	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
. Sotheby's will offer the egg at an auction on Thursday. It said it was estimated at 30,000 - 50,000 pounds( $ 76,410). In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. But it's very rare to find them intact as this one is, they're often reassembled from broken parts. They're often found in remnants of fires from early settlers of Madagascar, which indicates they were probably used for food, which has contributed to the bird's extinction. – David Goldthorpe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To fork out 100,000 pounds out of my net income, having paid the higher rate of tax, would be difficult, it's probably more affordable if it's done through the company. – Stephen Winyard	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't genuinely believe that they know themselves but I think everyone expects them to be the perfect family, we've had two bets of 500 pounds both on the name being Alice and this is massive, massive bets for us. The average bet on this type of market is about three to five pounds so a bet of this size is unheard of. – Rupert Adams	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I would not be surprised, given where this one is, in Hatton Garden, if 200 million pounds is around about the amount stolen. – Roy Ramm	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For me, I just want to feel great. But carrying the extra pounds started to weigh me down – literally, i want to encourage moms to feel good about themselves. I think it's important to empower ourselves. We have kids and we love our kids. But we still have ourselves. And I want to feel like the best version of Soleil Moon Frye. That's why I turned to Nutrisystem. – Soleil Moon Frye	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Weight is a source of medication errors because if the parent reports the weight in pounds and we base the dosing on kilograms that can lead to the wrong dose. – Lois Parker	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

And the UK government will be pushing up to 17 million pounds ($26.5 million) more to ensure the security of the Eurotunnel.

– British Prime Minister David Cameron

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In Calais, the French government has already been pushing in for extra resources and extra police resources. And the UK government will pushing up to 17 million pounds ($26.5 million) more to ensure the security of the Eurotunnel. we are also adding fencing around the entrance to the tunnel in Coquelles.

– British Prime Minister David Cameron

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I felt like a thousand pounds had lifted off my chest, i could breathe again.

– Scott Barber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I've lost five pounds, welcome to the Mother Emanuel aerobics hour.

– Norvel Goff

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is the first year we've got a hotel right on a Tube line direct to Wimbledon, and of course, no tubes, the hotel advised us to get a bus but the buses were so full we just got a taxi down, for 32 pounds.

– Gill Hughes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The hotel advised us to get a bus but the buses were so full we just got a taxi down, for 32 pounds.

– Gill Hughes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The tickets to go to Greece this weekend are really expensive, it isn't because of the season, it's because of the elections. For the (general) elections in January, I went back to vote and paid 100 pound)to go two days beforehand. This referendum when I'm leaving again two days before, the tickets are 300 pounds.

– Dimitri Augustidis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I tried the day before yesterday to buy a coach ticket for 15 pounds from Nottingham to London and the website wouldn't let me.

– Katerina Kyrgiou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They arrived at the worst possible time, they only had 40 pounds on Friday night ... after having paid for the hotel deposit, the first night there and other costs.

– Dimitri Augustidis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This checklist of 10 reasons your internal thermostat is out of whack can help you get a handle on why you're chronically freezing your butt off. You're too thin Low body weight — defined as a BMI hovering around 18.5 or under — can chill you out for a couple of reasons. First, when you're underweight, you lack an adequate level of body fat to insulate you from cold temperatures, explained Maggie Moon, RD, a Los Angeles – based nutritionist. The other thing is, to maintain that low BMI, you have to reduce your food intake so you likely aren't eating very much at all. Skimping on calories puts the brakes on your metabolism, so you don't create enough body heat. Consider putting on a few pounds by loading up on whole, healthy foods that contain lots of protein, fat, and complex carbohydrates. RELATED : Subtle Signs of Eating Disorders Your Thyroid is out of whack Add cold intolerance to the long list of health issues you can blame on the butterfly-shaped gland in your neck. Always being cold is a telltale sign of hypothyroidism, which means Your Thyroid doesn't secrete enough thyroid hormone.

– Holly Phillips

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our gross oil revenues are expected to amount to three million one hundred and eighty six South Sudanese pounds.

– David Deng Athorbei

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are now very close to our expected long-term investment rate of 800 million to 1 billion pounds per year, while capital from the UK government was an important start it will not be enough to sustain our level of investment. From the outset it was always part of the plan that we would need to raise additional capital from the private sector to supplement government funding.

– Shaun Kingsbury

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Look at me! a hundred and five pounds, a grown man and no education. I may be mistaken, but I think the years I've put in the cotton mills stunted my growth. They kept me from getting any schooling. I had to stop school after third grade and now I need the education I didn't get.

– Reuben Dagenhart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We go to that high altitude because it simulates the atmospheric conditions on Mars, mars has a very thin atmosphere. With current space technologies, NASA can land about 1 metric tonne, or 2,200 pounds on the surface of Mars, roughly equivalent to the Curiosity Rover’s weight.

– Steve Jurczyk

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was absolute a shock. I was 31, 6 feet tall and [176 pounds], and I’ve always been fit and healthy. To find out that I only have 20 percent function remaining in both kidneys, I was shocked, my family were shocked. I was three weeks out from my wedding. It was all very unknown and a very scary time.

– Nik Pinchbeck

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When I was approaching 30, I was [nearly] 360 pounds and I wasn't very active at all. I decided I'd just start hiking.

– Kara Richardson Whitely

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One day, [Stephen] came downstairs, i turned around and looked at him, and I said, ‘What have you done?’ He was suddenly looking very slim … he said, ‘I think I lost 8 or 10 pounds.’.

– Bonnie Yafa

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I've come a long way since then, two hundred eighty five pounds may sound like a lot to you, but to me it's really good.

– Scott Craig

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

. Sotheby's will offer the egg at an auction on Thursday. It said it was estimated at 30,000 - 50,000 pounds( $ 76,410). In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. But it's very rare to find them intact as this one is, they're often reassembled from broken parts. They're often found in remnants of fires from early settlers of Madagascar, which indicates they were probably used for food, which has contributed to the bird's extinction.

– David Goldthorpe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To fork out 100,000 pounds out of my net income, having paid the higher rate of tax, would be difficult, it's probably more affordable if it's done through the company.

– Stephen Winyard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't genuinely believe that they know themselves but I think everyone expects them to be the perfect family, we've had two bets of 500 pounds both on the name being Alice and this is massive, massive bets for us. The average bet on this type of market is about three to five pounds so a bet of this size is unheard of.

– Rupert Adams

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I would not be surprised, given where this one is, in Hatton Garden, if 200 million pounds is around about the amount stolen.

– Roy Ramm

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For me, I just want to feel great. But carrying the extra pounds started to weigh me down – literally, i want to encourage moms to feel good about themselves. I think it's important to empower ourselves. We have kids and we love our kids. But we still have ourselves. And I want to feel like the best version of Soleil Moon Frye. That's why I turned to Nutrisystem.

– Soleil Moon Frye

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Weight is a source of medication errors because if the parent reports the weight in pounds and we base the dosing on kilograms that can lead to the wrong dose.

– Lois Parker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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