Example sentences of "bigger [conj] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |
| 2 | Making a bigger or smaller version of an existing aircraft would cost less ( about $400m , reckons Airbus ) , but the new consortium says an all-new jet would be more efficient and so more attractive to airlines . |
| 3 | But this does not indicate that the particular swim where you are catching 3lb to 4lb barbel will only produce fish in that size range , for once that shoal moves out it is not unusual for another shoal to move in , be they bigger or smaller . |
| 4 | That is , you can have a shoal of bream of one size at or near the bottom of a water , and a shoal of bigger or smaller bream above them . |
| 5 | Bigger or smaller ? |
| 6 | Not many people are likely to learn if Julie 's partner is bigger or smaller than she is . |
| 7 | I mean would it be bigger or smaller or what ? |
| 8 | Neeow , we 'll get a much , what will be the acceleration , will it be bigger or smaller , get more acceleration or less ? |
| 9 | Once you 've established that you have the interest of around a dozen parents ( the number can be bigger or smaller , although a circle can be rather unmanageable if too many people are involved ) , decide on a system of allocating sitting ‘ jobs ’ so each parent in the circle gets a fair share . |
| 10 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 11 | What bigger or smaller ? |
| 12 | The doctor explained that moles can take up to 10 years to appear , or for existing ones to become bigger or darker . |
| 13 | Much better , it 's much bigger and cosier . |
| 14 | Wings bigger and blacker and more formidable than any he had yet seen . |
| 15 | This plywood structure has grown bigger and bigger , and he has even carved gothic spires on its top . |
| 16 | ‘ It gets bigger and bigger every year . |
| 17 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 18 | Balcon was forced off the CFC , where places were found both for Alexander Korda , who shared the new mogul 's enthusiasm for ‘ bigger and bigger films , ’ and for Rank himself . |
| 19 | I 'd started my album ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ and Mick Ronson was the arranger and producer for a couple of tracks , and David produced a couple of tracks too , but during the making of the album , David became even bigger and bigger in America and the move to America was absolutely imminent so I had to finish my own album without the help of him because he was n't around — which I did . |
| 20 | But all it did was to create a bigger gap that just got bigger and bigger . |
| 21 | Consequently , as the stakes become bigger and bigger in the playing of the game , the scruples will become smaller and smaller when it comes to the back-alley work of player recruitment . |
| 22 | As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider . |
| 23 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 24 | Even this amount of work will cost them £420 but , if nothing is done , chairman Peter Hobbs warned ‘ The mound will become a bigger and bigger eyesore . ’ |
| 25 | He did not believe the solution lay in bigger and bigger units : he had been immensely struck by the emphasis which Jim [ Callaghan ] laid on devolution in his paper . |
| 26 | In this approach , proposed by Kahn in 1976 , each trade union is seen as being in competition with other trade unions for bigger and bigger wage increases in an attempt to achieve and maintain a higher position in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
| 27 | Everyone said it was a curse on Hammond and that the Worm was getting bigger and bigger , feeding off the hatred Hammond had aroused , that it would turn . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And it keeps getting bigger and bigger , and so we keep coming back to complain about the size of the hotels and the lousy service , and STOP PUTTING CUCUMBER AND BUTTER ON MY F***ING SANDWICHES ! |
| 29 | He always looked to her like an infant who had grown bigger and bigger and then stopped growing without changing much . |
| 30 | Bougies were inserted into the urethra , and these got bigger and bigger , inflicting great pain and considerable nausea . |