noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a weight/height limit
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The weight limit per bag is 20 kilos.
at the height of sb’s/sth’s fame (= when someone was most famous )
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At the height of his fame, he could earn $5,000 a day.
at the height of the boom
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They sold their house at the height of the boom.
be at the height of your powers (= be at a time in your life when your abilities are strongest )
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Fonteyn was still at the height of her powers as a dancer.
be equal in size/length/height etc
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The population of each town is roughly equal in size.
be of equal size/length/height etc
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Draw two lines of equal length.
be the height of fashion (= be very fashionable )
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With her short dress and high boots she was the height of fashion.
in/at the height of summer (= in the middle of summer )
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Even in the height of summer, it's cool in here.
lofty heights
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He stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel, from whose lofty heights he could see across New York.
lose weight/height/speed etc
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You’re looking slim. Have you lost weight?
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The plane emptied its fuel tanks as it started losing altitude.
(of) medium height/length/build
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She’s of medium height.
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hair of medium length
reached the dizzy heights of
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Naomi had reached the dizzy heights of manageress.
sth is the height of luxury (= something that is extremely comfortable and gives you a lot of pleasure )
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If you want bathtime to be the height of luxury, you will be inspired by our latest range of shower accessories.
the height of sophistication (= very fashionable and expensive )
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a New York nightclub that was the height of sophistication
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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It is located in a layer at an average height of 12 kilometres above the Earth's surface.
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The suspect was described as a white male of average height and weight between 25 to 32 years old.
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They typically hide much greater deviations from the norm than say the figure for the average physical height of a population does.
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He was a burly man of average height , white-haired and distinguished looking.
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At five feet eight she was above the average height for a woman.
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The average height of a man was six feet, while seven-foot giants were by no means uncommon.
different
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Fed on different diets, two identical twins will grow to different heights .
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This is because the nave or choir and their aisles often have different widths and heights .
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I am thinking not of the motion of the wind at different heights but of the sea at different depths.
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They even had a different height heel.
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They are of different heights: some are short and some are tall.
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This happened in Santa Cruz during the Loma Prieta quake, where many adjoining buildings were of different heights .
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Horses also come in different heights and breeds, horses start from the height of fourteen-two hands high.
dizzy
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Expectation had been rampant throughout June but, come the pre-season friendlies of August, football fever had reached dizzy heights .
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Thereafter, the growth of the population reached dizzy heights .
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Climbers make a great mistake, however, in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling.
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By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader.
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What dizzy heights we trampoline at.
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A new gondola cable car will take you to dizzy heights , enabling you to appreciate the mountains in their true splendour.
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It screams with exclamation marks about the dizzy heights of certain walks and the lack of twilight in Madeira.
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It seems quite bizarre that people who play other people's records for a living can reach these dizzy heights of stardom.
full
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Sensing that he had the attention of the warriors the flagellant pulled himself up to his full height .
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At his full height , Varney was a head taller than Ezra.
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Amin, at his full height , looked down at me closely.
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The porch is a semicircle of giant Ionic columns running the full height of the house.
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Again Varney stood to full height .
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Here there is a fine series of grooves that run virtually the full height of the cliff.
great
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Sir Frank Worrell - his captaincy touched even greater heights than his batsmanship.
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They would probably play that disgusting game of spitting on people from a great height .
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Along this curve it is as if the plane were freely falling from a great height .
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He needed to come down from a greater height than most.
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Song not unlike Meadow Pipit, but more prolonged and musical and often delivered at greater height .
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I mean, who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles?
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So how come they void themselves on me from a great height with a white and annoyingly conspicuous product?
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They walked a razor edge, with Duane as an unhinged Aguirre, bullying and cajoling Gregg to greater songwriting heights .
head
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Two tiny marks, side by side, half an inch apart, about head height .
lofty
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From their lofty height of existence, it was as if they could not even see him.
maximum
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The climb rate dropped off noticeably as we reached maximum manifold height for the day and the lack of turbo-charging showed.
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There is also a maximum height for causing any devastation on the ground.
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These reach a maximum height in the north-east, at the top of Pico Branco.
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The amplitude of the curve is its maximum height above its average level.
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Thus the maximum height to which ripples can develop is limited.
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The maximum height thought to have been reached during this period is 2,000m.
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When ordering, check the maximum platform height advised for a freestanding unit.
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By Michael at Paul Nath Sleek, high gloss finish achieved with maximum height .
medium
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He was of medium height and was wearing a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal.
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The majority were of medium height , about a hundred and sixty pounds, clean-shaven and capable-looking.
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In general this is a well designed and well made sweater with a stud fastened neck closure and medium height collar.
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Crazy Horse was a slim man of medium height with brown hair hanging below his waist and a scar above his lip.
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She was a dark-haired woman of medium height with a faintly Asiatic cast to her brow and complexion.
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Of medium height , fair-haired, his gray eyes magnified by glasses with steel-blue frames.
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One was white, of medium height with fair or ginger hair cut short on one side and longer on the other.
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He was of medium height , and had regular, even features of the kind which are instantly forgettable.
new
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Nothing could dent the self belief that was driving her on to new heights .
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My preoccupation with time, when I want to be timeless, has taken me to new heights of eccentricity.
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Over the last two decades, however, this movement has reached new heights .
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Under his leadership, the radios reached new heights of effectiveness.
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In New York, Karpov has taken the art of defence to new heights , introducing stinging and lethal counterattacks.
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Records, is among the thousands of devoted followers who have raised figure skating to new heights of popularity.
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New prosperity did not raise fertility to new heights .
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The stock market is soaring to new heights .
■ NOUN
shoulder
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Barbell press Stand upright, holding the bar at shoulder height in front of your chest with your palms facing outwards.
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Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward, elbows at your sides.
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The centre of the ball should be at about shoulder height .
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Now as you breathe out again through your mouth, push the palms to the sides at shoulder height .
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The brass key was there, at shoulder height .
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She pressed the button, heard no sound, and waited with her tray held level at shoulder height .
■ VERB
fall
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Along this curve it is as if the plane were freely falling from a great height .
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As it was, the extremely small head of some dinosaurs no doubt reduced the dangers of falling from a great height .
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That particular experience left me with a recurrent dream about falling from great heights .
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Slides would be built over a mound, so there's no danger of children falling from a height .
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When they fell from grace, George Best fell from a greater height .
gain
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Vampires rose into the air, trying to gain height , kicking at clutching hands.
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This helped them to gain height and get power when heading the ball.
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Climbs on the west face thus gain steadily in height , culminating in an impressive blunt arête.
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Mirror tiles on a ceiling will gain height for the room and a miraculous sense of spaciousness.
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It is essential that you gain lots of height on the jump before attempting to snap your legs back.
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The road out of Ingleton spirals to gain height and after a mile straightens course and passes Skirwith Farm.
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It's like throwing sandbags over the side to gain height again.
grow
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The best vines are those closest to the village growing at a height of between 140 and 200 metres.
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Fed on identical diets, two genetically different men will not grow to the same height .
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The plant is more at home in marshy conditions than in the aquarium, where it will grow to a considerable height .
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Fed on different diets, two identical twins will grow to different heights .
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In the Upper Devonian, club mosses and horsetails grew to great heights .
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The wave rapidly grew from a height of tens of centimeters to an average of about 10 meters.
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Is it true that you grew three inches in height during filming?
lose
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With sixty-seven miles to run he needed to lose height at nearly three thousand feet a minute.
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The control column was eased forward to maintain speed and the aircraft began to lose height .
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To lose height pilots have to spiral down to the runway.
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Enough to hear the rush of air as they lost height .
measure
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Size can be measured as height , leaf area, volume, fresh weight, dry weight, etc.
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He would face that weight, at eye level, each time he measured his height and weighed himself.
reach
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The climb rate dropped off noticeably as we reached maximum manifold height for the day and the lack of turbo-charging showed.
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Both had been told from childhood that black men and women could never reach the heights that whites attain.
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Over the last two decades, however, this movement has reached new heights .
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It grows well in partial shade and reaches a height of about four feet.
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Just as we were about to reach ecstatic heights .
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Some of these giant waves reach extraordinary heights .
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I wave a fluttery wave of inconsequential cheerfulness and close the door, having reached new heights of cynical disinterest.
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The economy is robust and the stock market has reached unprecedented heights in recent weeks.
rise
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At one point the road suddenly curves and rises to the height of an eight-storey building.
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At the head of the harbor the hills rose to a height of 120 feet.
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The par-or-better rounds on Friday rose to the new heights of 54 and the average was further improved to 71.69.
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One of the perennial streams that sometime rises to astonishing heights of activity is the Leonid shower.
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The patrons rose to new heights of glee.
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They are square in plan and rise sheer to varying heights without ornament, abutment and with few openings.
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But his power of decision-making improved, and his gift of calming, persuasive oratory rose to its heights .
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But that decline came hard on the heels of the mid-1980s, when prices rose to absurd heights .
scale
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In his etchings too, Squirrell can scale the heights .
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It's a great guitar that deserves to scale considerable heights .
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The writers have a long way to go to scale these Olympian heights of absurdity, but they're trying.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
draw yourself up (to your full height)
fall from a great height
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Along this curve it is as if the plane were freely falling from a great height.
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As it was, the extremely small head of some dinosaurs no doubt reduced the dangers of falling from a great height.
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That particular experience left me with a recurrent dream about falling from great heights.
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When they fell from grace, George Best fell from a greater height.
giddy heights
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The group shows that, even at its current giddy heights, this market is still offering attractive values.
head for heights
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The stunt took eighteen months to set up, and was only for those with a strong head for heights.
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They were seated by one of the windows, and Paige was glad she had a head for heights.
scale the heights
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In his etchings too, Squirrell can scale the heights.
the dizzy heights (of sth)
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By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader.
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Climbers make a great mistake, however, in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling.
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It screams with exclamation marks about the dizzy heights of certain walks and the lack of twilight in Madeira.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My brother and I are nearly the same height .
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One of the climbers fell from a height of 25 metres.
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Sally had always been self-conscious about her height .
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Sam's about my height , I guess.
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She's about the same height as I am.
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Some of the pyramids are over 200 feet in height .
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What's the height of the average banana tree?
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You have to be a certain height to get on some of the rides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the decade since then, Disney has soared to new heights.
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It was in the height of fashion when it was built.
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Langford was forty years old, and at the height of his reputation as a war photographer.
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No one knows the height of the tsunami caused by this eruption.
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Peak heights were measured and corrected to a constant internal standard value.
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The living space is excellent with plenty of height and room inside.
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They take 40 years to bloom, 50 years to grow branches and 150 years to reach a height of 40 feet.