Collocations for size - noun

considerable, enormous, fair, good, great, impressive, large, massive, substantial, vast
The kitchen is a fair size.
The vast size of the country made it difficult to govern.

compact, diminutive, limited, modest, small
The unit's compact size makes it an ideal travel companion.
The dog's diminutive size is attractive to many people.

reduced
the reduced size of the show

increased
increasing
average, mean, medium
moderate, reasonable, sufficient
overall, total
sheer
The sheer size of these dinosaurs was their main weapon.

appropriate, convenient, handy, manageable
The ladder is a handy size for using in the house.
classes of manageable size

optimal, optimum (esp. BrE), perfect
correct, right
wrong
comparable, equal, equivalent, similar
relative
The relative size of the middle class has been steadily shrinking.

normal, standard, uniform
Her knee swelled to twice its normal size.
The standard size for the tiles is 12 inches.

varying
windows of varying sizes

maximum, minimum
The fish grow to a maximum size of 50 cm.

actual, full, life
The ring is shown actual size in the illustration.
a life-size model of a Roman soldier

adult
Only a limited number of the fish will grow to reach adult size.

class, family, group, household, market, population, sample
a model with constant population size

portion, serving (AmE)
The larger the serving size, the more you're likely to eat.

physical
body, brain, etc.
He eats a lot in proportion to his body size.

screen, window

adjust, change, control
expand, increase
limit
decrease, reduce, shrink
The company is reducing the size of its workforce.
to shrink the size of government

double, treble (BrE), triple
She has almost doubled the size of her investments.

determine
A city's size is determined by the extent of its market area.

match
attain, grow to, reach
estimate, guess, guess at
I had to guess at the size of the batteries.

overestimate, underestimate
calculate, determine, measure
compare

grow, increase
decline, decrease, fall
range from … to …
vary
The size of her audience varied.

allow sth, allow for sth
Their smaller size allowed for greater acceleration.

from the size of
From the size of the crowds outside, it was a very good movie.

in size
How do the samples compare in size?
The city has doubled in size in the last twenty years.
These insects range in size from one to two inches.
Houses increase in size as you travel further from the city.

in the size of
the increase in the size of the population

given the size of sth
Given the size of the task, he won't have time to do anything else.

half the size of sth, two, three, etc. times the size of sth
Their house is twice the size of ours.

relative to sb's/sth's size
Their weight is small relative to their size.

shapes and sizes, sizes and shapes (often figurative)
Our customers come in all shapes and sizes.

size and scope
Their website has grown in size and scope.

large, medium, small
The company is now going to make these products in larger sizes.

various
Brushes come in various sizes.

two-gallon, four-pound, etc.
The half-gallon size comes in a metal can.

imperial, metric
New radiators come in metric sizes.

adult, children's, men's, women's
bust, chest, etc.
XL fits chest sizes 44 to 50.

bra, collar, shoe
font
I changed the font size on the document.

range, variety

be, take, wear
What size are you (= for shoes or clothes)?
What size do you take?
Michael wears size 10 shoes.

be available in, come in
The bricks come in four sizes.

fit sb
Children's sizes don't fit her any more.

in a/your size
Does this dress come in a bigger size?
I couldn't find the blouse in my size.

be a size too big, small, etc.
The jacket is several sizes too large for him.

size matters
In surfing, size matters: big waves are beautiful.