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Con 1.90 metros y 250 libras, Vitali, con un récord de boxeo de 45-2 que incluye 41 nocauts, ganó la alcaldía de Kiev en 2014 y ha ocupado el cargo desde entonces.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2022

Por un breve y fugaz momento estuve por encima de las 100 libras.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2021

How do we know what libras or bitcoins are worth, or whether they’re worth anything?

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

If a ball be fired into it of the size of eight libras or less, it does not pierce the wood; and if the ball is large, the wood is not splintered.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

One paterero of the same casting, caliber fifteen libras, length fourteen diameters.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen