In coastal areas it can swell,or enlarge, to waves of up to thirty meters high.
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Castro also said that it's normal for a patient's face toswellup after being on a ventilator for a long time, though he also speculated the puffiness could be due to medications Chavez has been taking.
Both men have used them as patronage and to soak up unemployment, letting them swellto around 85, 000-strong, far beyond the 30, 000 limit envisaged in the Oslo peace accords of the 1990s.