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They can be meaningful but usually to only a limited audience.

If I described someone as being as tall as me, my friends and colleagues would have a pretty good idea. But no one else would have much of a clue.

Newspapers often use non-standard units that its readers may be familiar with. For example: (UK perspective) volumes that would fill Olympic Swimming Pools, high as a stack of double decker buses, areas as big as Wales. I suppose an Olympic pool is a standard, but that should not detract from the point that I am trying to make.

They can be meaningful but usually to only a limited audience.

If I described someone as being as tall as me, my friends and colleagues would have a pretty good idea. But no one else would have much of a clue.

Newspapers often use non-standard units that its readers may be familiar with. For example: (UK perspective) volumes that would fill Olympic swimming pools, high as a stack of double decker buses, areas as big as Wales. I suppose an Olympic pool is a standard, but that should not detract from the point that I am trying to make.

They can be meaningful but usually to only a limited audience.

If I described someone as being as tall as me, my friends and colleagues would have a pretty good idea. But no one else would have much of a clue.

Newspapers often use non-standard units that its readers may be familiar with. For example: (UK perspective) volumes that would fill Olympic swimming pools, high as a stack of double decker buses, areas as big as Wales. I suppose an Olympic pool is a standard, but that should not detract from the point that I am trying to make.

They can be meaningful but usually to only a limited audience.

If I described someone as being as tall as me, my friends and colleagues would have a pretty good idea. But no one else would have much of a clue.

Newspapers often use non-standard units that its readers may be familiar with. For example: (UK perspective) volumes that would fill Olympic swimming pools, high as a stack of double decker buses, areas as big as Wales. I suppose an Olympic pool is a standard, but that should not detract from the point that I am trying to make.

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They can be meaningful but usually to only a limited audience.

If I described someone as being as tall as me, my friends and colleagues would have a pretty good idea. But no one else would have much of a clue.

Newspapers often use non-standard units that its readers may be familiar with. For example: (UK perspective) volumes that would fill Olympic swimming pools, high as a stack of double decker buses, areas as big as Wales. I suppose an Olympic pool is a standard, but that should not detract from the point that I am trying to make.

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