In retail banking, they haven't capitalized on the benefits of size (like lower borrowing costs) to cut prices for their customers, the way big retailers like Wal-Mart do.
So, at a time when banks are failing with some regularity, the size and ubiquity of these big banks is reassuring.
They're not trying to palm you off with dodgy clothes; it's just their particular method of stock keeping, but it's worth checking they've given you the right size.
"The extra space is about the size of Trafalgar Square," said Eavis.
The after-dark madness that congregates around the fantasy areas of Shangri-la and Arcadia will be given more room than ever this year, with the festival ploughing in an extra £200,000 into the area, increasing its size by 10 acres.
If completed, the currently nameless city would span 700 sq km (a space almost as big as Singapore), house a park double the size of New York's Central Park, and a theme park four times as big as Disneyland – all to be completed within five to seven years.
"There are inevitably real downsides when a country is two-thirds or a third of its former size," he said.
Davis's diminutive size kind of makes her the underdog in most of her matches, but underestimate her at your peril.
Not because I think a banking crash is just around the corner, but because of the size of that gulf between those right at the top of this city and everyone else.
According to the report: "The size of the benefit to families with children from the new child-care package is, in any case, much smaller in magnitude than the cuts proposed in the 2014‐15 budget which will still clearly leave families at the bottom end of the income spectrum significantly worse off in absolute and percentage terms.
The collection answers the endless questions of what to do with the tiny turnips, pink-flushed Florence onions, purple carrots and broad beans the size of a little finger that those of us who use box systems or shop at farmers' markets often find in our kitchens.
