Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [art] size " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 2 | The possibility that the unfortunate young gentleman was waylaid seems inescapable ; he was , however , in possession of little , if any , money to attract the attention of would-be malefactors , and that he could have been attacked in broad daylight , in the middle of a city the size of Vienna , appears to us virtually incredible . ’ ' |
| 3 | It is buying the external high and low voltage electricity distribution systems of the three airports which , together , supply a maximum demand similar to that of a city the size of Cambridge . |
| 4 | Clara did not understand this story , but it seemed to her to tell of an emotion a size larger than pathos . |
| 5 | The lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition , and for a state the size of California it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size . |
| 6 | Monetary values depend on the size of the organisation but for a company the size of Lucas Automotive the potential savings from each review have generally run into hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 7 | For a country the size of England , such a tiny league would be a waste of resources and Cooke , presumably , would not want to attend second division games , even to view players such as Nottingham 's Martin Pepper , a flanker of England quality . |
| 8 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 9 | ‘ It is obviously disastrous for a club the size of Everton to be in the position they are in , but this could be the springboard . |
| 10 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 11 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 12 | Sure , I was standing here with a hole the size of an elephant 's nose guard in my four-set clause . |
| 13 | The London hotel corridor is full of minders , all sporting various degrees of cowboy drag , and a manager with a belly the size of Memphis . |
| 14 | True , with a firm the size of Stevenson 's , working on up to fifty contracts for a dozen or so companies , there could never be so dead a reckoning that the final moment could be named with certainty . |
| 15 | ‘ Mighty magic , ’ commented the barbarian , pushing down heavily on the complaining blade with a hand the size of a ham . |
| 16 | But I think it would spoil everything for you , when you realise he 's just a boring , pushy young fellow with an ego the size of the bullring . ’ |
| 17 | In a country the size of Zambia , with few telephones in rural areas and few reporters based anywhere outside the few major towns , it is impossible to check such a story speedily . |
| 18 | They predict that within a decade such polymer films will be able to store Gigabits of data in a film the size and thickness of a dime . |
| 19 | It was exciting to travel by private plane and helicopter with courtiers standing to attention , to be driven in a limousine the size of a small house , and to stay in palaces and castles in the lap of luxury . |
| 20 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 21 | The party is being held in a ballroom the size of Carnegie Hall and they 've forgotten to provide a podium so the people at the back have no idea you 're there . |
| 22 | ‘ I happened to be in the area and Lucasta Redburn 's not a common name , especially in a town the size of Plumford . ’ |
| 23 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 24 | Luckily , in a place the size of Scampton it was easy enough to keep out of her path , and this I did quite successfully until my turn came for demobilisation . |
| 25 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 26 | I begin by repeating the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North on 14 January , that in an organisation the size of the health service , which deals with so many patient contacts , it should not be surprising — indeed , it should be welcomed — that we do not seek to impose total uniformity on every single decision that is made about the treatment of patients across the country . |
| 27 | A DECADE after the Argentinians invaded , the Falkland Islands face a massive new advance — from an iceberg the size of Buckinghamshire . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's like those pesky jelly strings in eggs that stick between your teeth — really monstrous ones from an egg the size of a mountain ! |
| 29 | Suspension was provided by two thick hawsers , one attached to his ankles and firmly anchored ashore to a boulder the size of a double-decker bus , the other attached to his wrists and fixed to a large steam yacht 's anchor fitting . |
| 30 | THE scene outside a Moscow hotel : a man in a suit unfurls an umbrella , turns it upside down and attaches it to a box the size of a fruit crate . |