The degree to which we can know the planet's size depends on how well we can know the host star's size.
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Russia's economy is roughly the size of South Korea's, and barely a 20th the size of America's.
Dongguan's Brazilian community is now China's largest, twice the size of Shanghai's and almost triple the size of that in Beijing.
Company officials said many corporations of Verizon's size now have employee's picking up 26% of their premium payments in an environment where costs are advancing at 12% per year.
Now weighing around 200 pounds, she has gone from wearing a women's size 30 dress to a size 14 and she's gone from wearing a double-wide shoe to a medium width.
Second, far from being one of Europe's largest networks Britain's is only about half the size of France's and roughly the same size as that of Italy.
The Knicks are 5-0 under Woodson and though it's a small sample size it's worth noting that no team has allowed fewer than 87.5 points per game this season.
Asked if the supplemental index is getting bigger, he responds that "new pages are constantly being added, " but that the "algorithmic nature" of Google's spider makes it hard to measure the index's size or how fast it's growing.
Now Mr. Dunbar, who teaches at Oxford, has taken the argument a step further in work yet to be published, by correlating the size of a specific part of an individual's brain with the size of that individual's social network.
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And it's not just size, it's the experience they have of being first.
Estimates of the offshore discovery's size would rank the country as the having the world's 11th-largest natural-gas reserves.
E-Trade's size and its irreverent ads have positioned it among the Internet's elite, with Ebay, Yahoo and Amazon.
The news leaked as JC Penney moved to sell women's "plus-size" Levi's on-line.
The poster adds: "It's not about the size, it's about the presentation!"
Her business won't be subject to the insurance-coverage requirement because of her payroll's size, but she says she doesn't expect the law's changes to bring down her premiums.
One reason why size matters is the mining industry's small size relative to other comparable industries, such as petroleum.
Still, Wal-Mart's size, together with the longtime acceptance of same-store sales as a yardstick of a retailer's health, makes for potential fireworks every time the company's executives put out the latest monthly number.
Zappos posts these reasons on the item's Web page to warn other customers about any unique qualities--such as a stated shoe size that's consistently too big or a color that doesn't exactly match its picture.
Because of the SBA's new size standards, which determine a company's eligibility for federal set asides for small firms, his company now vies for contracts against competitors as much as twice its size, he says.
Libya's population is a quarter the size of Iraq's, and the country should be easier to control: almost all its people, a more homogeneous lot albeit with sharp tribal loyalties, live along the Mediterranean coastal strip.
This all changed a few years ago when I visited chef Sara Jenkins's popular pocket-size eatery in Manhattan's East Village named, appropriately, Porchetta.
Many years ago Mr. Dunbar famously noticed that there is a tight correlation between the size of a primate's brain and the size of the social group its species generally forms.
WSJ: The Social Network and the Dunbar Number | Mind & Matter
Boone Pickens points out, that's the size of the largest oil field the U.S. has ever had--Alaska's Prudhoe Bay.
Twice as large as Belfast's Titanic Quarter and four times the size of London's Canary Wharf, it is the largest development site in public ownership.
And so what if New York's tech scene is still a third the size of California's?
It's similar in size and shape to the company's Galaxy S Pen Holder Kit, which serves as a sleeve for the standard-issue Note S Pen, but Bluetooth functionality, along with a microphone and tiny speaker, enable the lightweight plastic contraption to double as a wireless headset -- sure to come in handy with the SIM slot-equipped international Note 10.1 flavor.
China's economy is still less than a third the size of America's at market exchange-rates.
Since by that reckoning China's GDP is currently only two-fifths the size of America's, that day may still seem distant.
But even by the standards of this group, the creature's size has astonished scientists.
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