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.
As he spoke, all of us contenders were eagerly looking forward to the thick bundles of documentation for the existing platform that would help us size up the monster that we were going to deal with.
The icons vary in shape and size, with the time in a circle, bright and big (good for those of us text-size challenged).
In 2009, the size of the middle class in the US was 338M the size of the middle class in the Asia Pacific was 525M.
In 1980 it was one-20th of the size of the US, today it is half the size and closing rapidly.
However, in the same chart they also tell us that the size of the Chinese manufacturing workforce peaked in 2006 at 112 million people and then started to decline: only 99 million by 2008.
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We also were deposed, which gave us the chance to size up the opposing counsel.
Our lack of size hurt us against a team with the big men of Gonzaga.
In that sense, Italy is a little like the US - its sheer size gives it more wiggle room and raises the bar for failure.
Well, my father had served as a Philadelphia police officer with 7, 000 police officers, yet there was only 3500 of us for the same size population.
Of course, even if Russia doesn't agree to scale back its nuclear arsenal, Obama has already ensured that the US will slash the size of its own by refusing to fund its modernization.
The total estimated offshore wind potential for the US is 4, 100 Gigawatts (GW), or approximately four times the size of the total US power system.
The figure is equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
On a recent Letterman President Obama seemed not to know the size of the US deficit.
One link even took us to a life-size deer decoy at Cabela's, a Nebraska-based hunting and outdoor site.
The island, which is about the size of the US state of Texas, sits hundreds of miles off the coast of south-eastern Africa.
The sales figure for Up All Night may appear low given the size of the US music market, but album sales have plummeted in recent years.
"I think all of us were troubled by the size of that package, " says Richard de Osborne , who was chairman until he handed Hassan the reins yesterday.
"Matt's rugby skills and size will suit us well and we are very pleased that he wants to progress his rugby here at Bath, " said head coach Meehan.
To put that into context - it is more than a quarter of the total GDP (gross domestic product) for the whole world - about the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
Theoretically the purpose of this visit was to discuss ways to coordinate our efforts at stabilizing the area around Gardez, but the reality was that lunch provided us all an opportunity to size each other up.
President George W Bush has banned fishing in an area the size of Spain in US-controlled waters of the central Pacific.
This project is exciting to us not only because of its size and scale, but also because it uses advanced technology.
The researchers suggest that the relatively low life expectancies in the US cannot be explained by the size of the nation, racial diversity, or economics.
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But "as our party grew in size, many of us began to see nuclear power as a safe power that should be more aggressively utilized, " he said.
Over 60 percent of iTunes U app downloads originate from outside the US, giving schools of any size the ability to share their content with a worldwide audience.
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Assuming Chen's talking about a 1, 920 x 1, 080 resolution, a quick calculation based on these two numbers would give us a 5-inch screen size, which matches what LG Display announced back in May.
He also expressed concern about the safety of US ports, particularly given the vast size of the maritime industry.
Not too many of us could pay a fine of that size and still go back to our comfy mansion.
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But President Obama has put us on a path to increase the size of the federal government by more than 40 percent over the next 75 years.
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