Plaid Cymru was also concerned about the increased size of some seats, and the ability of MPs to keep in touch with constituents across large rural areas.

BBC: Wales

Its loan book was five times the size of Hokuyo's: some 17, 000 Hokkaido companies borrowed from it.

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But he said the main salary costs were governed by the size of the force, adding that it was not worthwhile for some officers to become a chief constable "because you could be losing money coming from one force going to the other".

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She went so far as to lay out in some detail exactly what she was seeking, right down to a diagram of the size of the keys.

BBC: In search of simple phones

Interestingly, the One doesn't come with a microSD slot (as featured on the Japanese and Asian Butterfly variants) and Qi wireless charging (as featured on the Verizon versions of some HTC flagships), but Chou wasn't too keen on addressing these drawbacks, and neither was he up for talking about the seemingly smaller battery size when compared to some of the competition.

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That's the reason that they can feel comfortable because today you can learn as much about the company in the emerging market as you could of some company that you might not have known very much about that was a medium-size company on the other side of America.

FORBES

The only problem we had was we needed to redesign some of the sizes of the audio port area before we found the perfect plug size for external mics.

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"Just the size of the numbers was far out of what the market would dictate even for someone with some severe medical conditions, " Urban recalls.

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