Example sentences of "[adv] as big as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 2 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 3 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 4 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 7 | A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now underway to bring cable television to every house in Britain . |
| 8 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 9 | Sometimes as big as a house and containing millions of fish , the mass is near spherical . |