Euromonitor, a research firm, predicts that the world will add 48m new solo residents by 2020, a jump of 20%.

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The tractor would intercept the asteroid from just 48m away and exert a small gravitational force on it, pulling the rock towards it.

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Currently UKA also keeps two sets of records so, even if Dennison clears 4.48m or Lewis 5.81m indoors, Whitlock and Buckfield will remain the British record holders (as opposed to British indoor record holders), with heights inferior to their indoor counterparts.

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