I checked my latest pending post for those words.

I wasn’t very big at the time, not much taller than the table.

That statement seems ok since it includes a reference.

It turned out that the ice cream was very hard.

Extremely is much more effective here. One nice thing about Medium is that I can fix it, even after it is published.

No other words. I will look at some of my earlier technical articles, just out of curiosity.

Thanks.