With an average height of 6-foot-3, the team's starting back line is the tallest to take the field in the Six Nations during the modern era.

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When someone is in a wheelchair his head is at the height of an average person's waist.

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All of the 96 women I interacted with listed their height as between 5-foot-1 and 5-foot-3, even though the average height of an American woman is 5-foot-4.

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Based upon data from the paper, the cooling climate impact from the decrease in the average global cloud height more than offset the positive forcing from an increase in greenhouse gases from human activities in the last decade.

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