Example sentences of "[adv] big as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 2 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 3 | I ai n't never seen anything like it — all them colours and Father Christmas , huge , as big as a giant — all red and gold and glittery . |
| 4 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 5 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 6 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |
| 7 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 8 | So as you will see , this leaves a hole as big as a goat 's backside in the programme , and Dulcie wrote to Jas and I that unless one of us would write another ballet , and a longish one at that , the University Ballet would n't be able to go to JHB ! ! ! |
| 9 | It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet . |
| 10 | The wild aurochs , as big as a modern English Longhorn , was widespread in Britain while there was still a landbridge linking the land to the Continent after the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age , but it died out here during the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago and it never reached Ireland . |
| 11 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 12 | Sensible , efficient , and a heart as big as a football . |
| 13 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 14 | The entrance hall of the hotel was as big as a railway station itself . |
| 15 | The eleven-metre long Allosaurus — the ‘ leaping lizard ’ — weighing up to two tons , as big as a bus , was able to take strides two metres long . |
| 16 | The wheel nearest the P2 is huge ( nearly as big as a Boeing trim wheel ) and controls the flaps . |
| 17 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 18 | She opened her eyes and froze with horror and disbelief at the sight of a vast creature staring down at her with green eyes each as big as a lilypond . |
| 19 | As big as a block of flats , this steel gate was 167ft × 54ft × 35ft thick ( about 50m × 15m × 10m ) . |
| 20 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |
| 21 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |
| 22 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 23 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 24 | The war boar is a ferocious animal , as big as a horse , extremely strong , vicious , bad tempered , loudly flatulent , and its behaviour is in all respects dangerous and unpredictable . |
| 25 | Sometimes as big as a house and containing millions of fish , the mass is near spherical . |
| 26 | All of this means that in the past year Schnabel has applied paint and might one hope quality thought time ? to an area as big as a standard tennis court with 400 square feet left over . |
| 27 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 28 | Very occasionally , flower-like impressions were detected on them , some the size of a buttercup , some as big as a rose . |
| 29 | " The slice of bread should be as big as a dessert plate and nearly 1 inch thick . |
| 30 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |