The report isn't measuring the scale of the additional divestment in branch numbers, but in its impact on competition.

BBC: Banking on the future

Greenpeace says small-scale fishing vessels measuring 12m (40ft) or less make up about 80% of the European fishing sector and usually cause less environmental harm.

BBC: Euro MPs back large-scale fishing reform to save stocks

And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?

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"On a scale of 1-10 measuring asset price 'irrationality, ' we are probably at a 6 and moving in an upward direction" he wrote.

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In 1994, more than 120 people were killed by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale which struck in the Mascara region of western Algeria.

CNN: Monday,

East Coast residents who thought they were immune from earthquakes got a jolt of reality today from a quake centered in Virginia and measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale.

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The Housing Market Index, measuring the confidence of home-builders, plunged to just 13 this month (on a scale of 1 to 100), a nine-month low.

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