But if one of those 9.7 billion set a world record for size, the world never found out.
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Fort Hood is the largest U.S. military installation in the world by size, and on any given day, it is home to 25, 000 to 30, 000 people, according to an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.
It is 50 times the size of World of Warcraft and 30 times the size of Second Life at their biggest.
As with most things in the business world, the size and scope of your business plan depend on your specific goals.
To be sure, retailers could save a lot of money if they offered only one size, but consumers would find a one-size world to be inconvenient, if not unworkable.
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At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
If the same techniques were applied across the world, the size of the oceanic carbon sink, and its variation year by year, would be known considerably better than the size of the land sink.
In a world less driven by an immediate threat to Europe and the danger of global war, in a world where the size of our forces will increasingly be shaped by the needs of regional contingencies and peacetime presence, we know that our forces can be smaller.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
It could rival in size the world's largest, in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which processes 200 million gallons a day.
For more than 2, 000 years, Uruk was the largest city in the world, surpassed in size only by Babylon in the sixth century B.
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Built using the brand new REDengine 3, Wild Hunt boasts a world thirty times the size of its predecessor and even larger than the rather massive Skyrim.
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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.
Although ISS claims that it covers more than 40, 000 stockholder meetings for its clients, it has decided that it lives in a one-size only world when it recommends how its clients should vote on stockholder proposals with respect to disclosure of corporate political contributions.
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In being one of the lowest scoring sports in the world, low sample size of success (at least if measured by goals) and the apparent randomness with which it comes makes analysis of the sport perhaps the most difficult of those discussed within conference panels.
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Size matters when world trade is falling because large economies have millions of domestic consumers to turn to when foreign markets fail.
Given the size of the world energy markets, a speculator would have to make George Soros look like a pauper to successfully drive prices up.
Nashville has one of the best hotels for a city its size in the world, the Forbes 5-Star, AAA 5-Diamond Hermitage, in the heart of downtown.
Although the turtle found at Pendine was big, it came nowhere near the size of the world's largest leatherback turtle which was washed up on a north Wales beach in 1988.
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The auction house says it is one of the rarest and most famous diamonds in the world that combines an impressive size of 76.02 carats, perfect color, and internally flawless clarity.
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The report reckons that the number of underweight children will rise from 121m to 125m by 2010, assuming no change in the size of the world economy (in fact, it is expected to shrink 2% this year).
Because while today people are anxious and feel insecure, over the next two decades literally billions of people in other continents will move from being simply producers of their goods to being consumers of our goods and in this way our world economy will double in size.
One way to size-up the world is to divide people into four categories.
Through the tap of her cane, which, like an echolocating bat, sends a small sound out into the world, she could detect the size and constituents of the space through which she was walking.
The tablet phenomenon in the world today is bigger than the size of its memory chip, more awe-inspiring than the speed of its processor it is a wonder of our time, and in an ever more connected and computerized world, it may be the perfect tool for the industrious, creative, modern human.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In Chris Harrison's ideal world, mobile phones would be the size of matchbooks.
The technology was a little limiting for the size and scope of the world you could have.
The World Bank says that it limited the size of cash handouts for fear that officials would steal them or recipients squander them.
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Their 70, 000-gene chromosomes have been manipulated to include a gene from the orb weaver, a palm-size spider that spins the world's toughest natural material.
Its sprawling network of warehouse-size data centers around the world scrapes and analyzes the Web for every clue to how we search for what's out there.
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