Example sentences of "big as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is already as big as the previous record in 1987 , when half the ozone over the Antarctic disappeared between late September and late November . |
| 2 | But , as the table shows , after adjustment for inflation some of the mergers that took place during this century 's three previous spates of restructuring — 1897–1904 , 1925–30 and the late 1960s — were as big as the top takeovers of the 1980s . |
| 3 | He went down the airless corridor to his Boss 's office , said hello to the secretary , and walked into the large oak-panelled room which was as big as the lobby of many a sizeable hotel . |
| 4 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |
| 5 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 6 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 7 | And giant waves are indeed like alien presences , as big as the Death Star , erasing ships and sailors as effectively as Martian ray guns . |
| 8 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 9 | Woolworth 's engagement rings , each a lump of glass as big as the Ritz . |
| 10 | Rather than copy this ‘ accidental ’ compound radius , Fender have chosen to equip the reissue with a simple 12″ radius board and .098″ wide medium jumbo frets — big , but not as big as the .110″ wide ‘ jumbo bass frets ’ referred to by the man himself . |
| 11 | The name comes from the Greek for ‘ eye as big as the full moon ’ . |
| 12 | After all , it was only 5.7 on the Richter scale , not quite as big as the one six years ago . |
| 13 | The donkey was as big as the ox and its ears were short like a pony 's . |
| 14 | A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now underway to bring cable television to every house in Britain . |
| 15 | Already old pals to a legion of live fans , it wo n't be long before they 're as big as The Levellers , except they 'll be excellent as well — catchy , bright , funny , infectious , everything The Levs are not , really . |
| 16 | The company retains major ambitions in China and says it wants to help the country create by the end of the century a network that would be over twice as big as the one operated by British Telecommunications Plc — China plans to raise the number of telephone lines to 100m nationwide by the year 2000 from just 25m now . |
| 17 | Yet this is , in many ways , a weak administration : supported by a minority vote last November , bereft of men and women as big as the president himself can be . |
| 18 | Roger Sippl reckons the market for customer service management software and systems will grow to be as big as the Manufacturing Resource Planning ( MRP ) market is now , and expects there will be room enough for three players . |
| 19 | It wo n't be as big as The Liar but it will be a good read at Christmas . |
| 20 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 21 | THE DETECTIVE : There 's a hole at the middle of this case as big as the hole in Lepine 's head . |
| 22 | Looking over to the block of flats opposite , I can see a window with a dark , damp patch underneath it as big as the window itself : it was n't raining , but somehow it was wet . |
| 23 | They 're as big as the Sun — some are even bigger . ’ |
| 24 | Until this month , I thought that all anyone needs to know besides budget are such things as preferred processor ( a 486DX ) , speed ( at least 33MHz ) , hard disk size ( as big as the bucks allow ) , monitor type ( ditto ) and a familiar brand need which would be there forever to honour a warranty . |
| 25 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 26 | The German skipper ascribed most of his problems to his team 's unfamiliarity with a boat as big as the 33ft ( 10.2m ) Farr MRX used . |
| 27 | He had a personality as big as the Ritz . |
| 28 | The next year the eight to the final year , there 's sixteen the next year until we were getting that the two year course was just as big as the old one year course . |
| 29 | ‘ Not as big as the fuss I 'll kick up if he says anything . |
| 30 | An organisation as big as the police has to turn to scores of different agencies . |