Example sentences of "big as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | IT WAS THE YEAR that electric cars were big but two-strokes were bigger as Jaguar told us of a supercharged two-stroke future and Pininfarina let us drive the Ethos . |
2 | The penalty for all this housekeeping is that the files generated by the program do tend to get bigger and bigger as time goes on . |
3 | Some crates were as big as vacation cottages , because a hierarchy of crate status had suddenly come into being . |
4 | Arthurton 's innings was interrupted for 30 minutes after lunch on 117 when a tropical summer storm rained hailstones as big as cricket balls on the pitch . |
5 | Those of some species grew as big as lorry wheels . |
6 | Neither , however , is as big as Government House , the crenellated , Italianate mansion used by the Governor . |
7 | Iskandara always chose the wing chair that had been her mother 's , covered in wine-red leather and studded with brass nails as big as gull 's eggs . |