Example sentences of "[adv] as big as a [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 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 4 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 5 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 6 | Sometimes as big as a house and containing millions of fish , the mass is near spherical . |