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An example use of size in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… in terms of the size of the Welsh budget …”
Size is the dimension, or magnitude, of something.
the word size occurs in english on average 127 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.