Sentence examples for size of regulation from inspiring English sources

To encourage longer rallies and make the sport more spectator-friendly, the International Table Tennis Federation increased the size of regulation balls by two millimeters in 2000.

Courts, about half the size of regulation lawn-tennis courts, at first were 39 by 18 ft (11.9 by 5.5 m), about one-fourth the size of a regulation tennis court.

The ball was about two-thirds the size of a regulation football, and much harder.

The game is played with four-person teams on a field one-fourth the size of a regulation baseball diamond.

Give the meatballs a go: you'll receive two, each the size of a regulation bocce ball.

Half a world away on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, the ragtag group of players who make up the national team train twice a week on an uneven patch of turf barely half the size of a regulation field.

Unlike boys of the same age, the girls have to train -- and play -- on a field half the size of a regulation soccer field, and with seven instead of 11 players.

They haul two heavy iron goals out of a storage locker and into place at opposite ends of a space about the size of a regulation ice hockey rink, but topped with a special asphalt textured like rough sandpaper.

Despite misleading claims by Republican members of Congress and by Republican candidates on the presidential campaign trail that the size of government, regulation and excessive taxation have caused the jobs problem, business surveys repeatedly have identified weak demand as the primary constraint on job creation.

We can compile phone book sized volumes of regulations and best practices, but if they are too cumbersome to be read then they are useless.

Our findings have broad implications for our understanding of the mechanisms of size regulation and the development of other environmentally-sensitive traits.