There, on the right side of his brain, was a tumor the size of a tennis ball.
It had a colored rope, with a yellow handle, and you held the handle and walked pulling the cement mixer behind you rather like a wagon, although it was nowhere near the size of a wagon.
And when we asked her if she was convinced that it was not a random cluster of the kind we would expect in a place the size of Britain, she was emphatic.
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It was a day of anger, tears, ecstasy, frustration, even one of those ridiculous pay cheques the size of a double decker bus was wiggled about.
Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator, using liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 300 degrees below zero and taking hours to produce a reading.
Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator that used liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 184 degrees Celsius below zero and took hours to produce a reading.
Then it began to grow larger, until it was the size of a dime, a quarter.
It was about the size of a turkey and would have fed on lizards and other small prey.
Our dining room was about the size of a gymnasium, a quarter of it already occupied by other Japanese.
The species, which was about the size of a domestic cat, lived between 100 and 200 million years ago.
The cub, which zoo officials said was the size of a stick of butter, had not yet been named.
They made the first mobile phone in 1973, it was the size of a phone book and it was shelved.
The crowd here was a fraction of the size of the one outside, and the atmosphere was almost monastic by comparison.
The 1990s Global Hawk was the size of a small passenger jet.
It was about the size of a softball, well-preserved and healthy, having come from a woman who had died recently in an accident.
Luckily my face, it didn't do too much damage to, but it was the size of a basketball when I was hospital, when I first came in.
Although this week's death toll was only a fraction of the size of the tsunami, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited the disaster zone within hours of the tragedy.
The Turbo Express was about the size of a Game Boy but had a sharp active-matrix color display and could even be used as a portable TV with an optional tuner.
But Tim had clearly been obsessed with the idea of taking home his own piece of Aperture Science since the MakerBot team first showed us one back at CES. The one we saw back then was roughly the size of a soccer ball, but we figured we'd start with something a bit more modest at one inch cubed.
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At about the same time, a team of professional astronomers was pulling off a similar trick for a planet the size of Jupiter in orbit around a star 32m times farther from Earth than the sun.
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Furthermore, we found in the 50 years of data that there was a strong correlation between the size of the earnings yield spread and expected future returns.
Sometimes, the threat was a change in the size or nature of a particular market: McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing, for example, because its biggest customer, the Pentagon, was cutting spending by half.
It consisted of a 100-electrode panel about the size of a baby aspirin that was placed on the surface of the brain at a fold in the motor cortex where hand movement is controlled.
The rover was a mere 23 pounds and about the size of a large microwave oven.
However during the bloom triggered by the ash deposits from the eruption, the team recorded that it was a shortage of nitrogen that limited the size of the phytoplankton bloom and - as a result - the volume of carbon dioxide uptake.
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