Example sentences of "get larger " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the roar of the big bang faded , the universe got larger and its contents cooled down . |
| 2 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 3 | These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny . |
| 4 | We had , well when we got , when , as we got older us younger ones our business got larger . |
| 5 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 6 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 7 | Palls were getting larger : no more the short-hemmed highly embroidered creature ; a huge sheet of black velvet twelve by fifteen feet , sometimes lined with white silk or a lesser-quality material of the same colour , and thrown right over the coffin and its bearers . |
| 8 | According to Sir Hector Laing , Chairman of United Biscuits : ‘ In a world where the large food companies are getting larger , backed by the cash resources of very rich large partners , it is not good enough to be a minnow : in order to compete internationally each company has to get bigger . ’ |
| 9 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 10 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 11 | Business fluctuations have been getting larger and larger . |
| 12 | Increasingly it seems that the partial triumphs of the Federal Campaign Act are slipping away as individual contributions are getting larger and more frequently come from outside constituencies . |
| 13 | The next day , push the fins into the marzipan , starting at the head with the smaller triangles , getting larger over the back of the body , and then smaller towards the tip of the tail . |
| 14 | By managing the stock and thinning them out we 're getting larger and better shellfish . ’ |
| 15 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) argues that the venture capital industry has done little to reduce the funding gap and indeed that it may be getting larger . |
| 16 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
| 17 | As we blow up the balloon , its surface gets larger ( that is , spacetime expands ) . |
| 18 | The problem becomes worse as the dictionary gets larger . |
| 19 | My fish is quite tame and I hand feed him , although as he ( or she ) gets larger I will stop this practice as I value my fingers . |
| 20 | This gets larger if we increase the number in front of the x value in our equation . |
| 21 | management responsibilities tend to overlap and become confused as the size of the management structure gets larger . |
| 22 | As a system gets larger the logic becomes more obscure , modification more risky and debugging increasingly problematic . |
| 23 | Furthermore with a text recognition system , as the lexicon gets larger the problems increase . |
| 24 | Under certain conditons this approximation gets better as the sample size gets larger . |
| 25 | As the search-space gets larger , more and more sophisticated searching procedures become necessary . |
| 26 | ‘ The patterns get larger towards the bottom of the coat and this gradation is difficult to print . |
| 27 | The reason for the need to read more records is that as the blocks get larger there is an ever-increasing likelihood of at least one update being required from amongst the records in the block . |
| 28 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 29 | The worst case curve shows fluctuations that get larger and larger . |
| 30 | Distant objects are small and get larger when they come closer to the camera . |