At 5ft 9in and a US size eight (usually either a UK 10 or 12), I envied the girls whose boyfriends could pick them up and carry them on their shoulders.
He was wearing a black Slazenger vest top, khaki Pierre Cardin jeans which had black tape linking around two of the belt loops acting as a makeshift belt, and white size eight Lonsdale trainers with a blue trim and Velcro fasteners.
Crammed into rooms no bigger than a king-size bed, six to eight young boys, some as young as 5 years old, are hard at work.
But what I'm more concerned about more than the cosmetic look of whether I can fit into a size five or 10 or six or eight suit is whether or not my heart pumps regular.
Giganotosaurus hunted Argentinosaurus in packs, stalking and felling the giant leaf-eater on the open savannah before ripping its flesh apart with serrated teeth eight inches long - teeth which protruded from a skull bigger in size than a modern-day bathtub.
Eight-legged creatures the size of Mini Coopers are companions in a quiet cave, or on your midnight trip to the loo.
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It's so small that a full-size USB connector dwarfs it by comparison, and there's only eight contact pins per side (or possibly total) versus the 30 overall that we know today.
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Cyprus' banking sector is about eight times the size of the economy and has been accused of being a hub for money-laundering, particularly from Russia.
The result is a prototype battery that can expand to three times its normal size, but can still last for eight to nine hours.
In late 2010, the American military estimated the costs of maintaining the Afghan Army and police at their projected size three hundred and fifty-two thousand at about eight billion dollars a year, according to a former American official who served in Kabul.
Built by connecting a number of standard modules each measuring 384mm both in height and width and weighing eight kilograms, the Diamond Vision OLED is scalable and can be designed to flexibly form a certain size or shape, even against rounded surfaces.
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