In August 2011, Speth and his chief engineer finally broke through more than two meters of earth and reinforced concrete and the shelter's 278-millimeter-thick ceiling to emerge into a 40-square-meter space, divided into five interconnecting rooms by heavy metals doors.

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There, a square meter of space went for nearly ten times what it would cost in Kuala Lumpur.

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The plant has a 25, 000 square meter production space with a capacity to produce 15, 000 tons of potato chips annually.

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Atop the 10-meter cubed space sits a motion capture system (made up of eight cameras) which locate objects in the FMA at rates of more than 200 frames per second.

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Inside the riser pipe is a space about half a meter in diameter, large enough to hold the spinning drill pipe and bit and to allow the return flow of drilling fluid.

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The billionaire investor Warren Buffett has famously said that if we put all the gold in the world into one room, it would take up the space of a 67-meter cube.

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Police say that more than 30 adults lived in the warren of rooms, where three people shared each square meter of living space, according to the state-run news agency RIA Novosti.

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Casa Daros, a 12, 000-square-meter (129, 000-square-foot) space in an impeccably renovated 1866 mansion, will house some of the works acquired the past 13 years by Zurich-based collector Ruth Schmidheiny.

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The owner of a two-meter wide clock shop, for example, only surrendered half of his small space to Barbar, keeping the other half for himself.

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