Example sentences of "large as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reminded him of the ignominious episode of the oath-taking , and pointed out that Rodrigo now had a personal ‘ army ’ almost as large as the King 's . |
| 2 | Not all problems have gone away of course : yesterday 's £6.4 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not much higher than expectations , but it is almost as large as the deficit for the previous 11 months and — with this year 's deficit forecast to be double last year 's — shows why the Bank of England so eagerly sold £2 billion or more of gilts on election night and why it needs a regular stream of massive sales . |
| 3 | He was ‘ virtually the general of a powerful and willing army and if he is a wise man , his opportunities for good will be as large as the sphere he occupies ’ . |
| 4 | The display territory must be at least as large as the floor area of your tank — and so yours undoubtedly supposes that any female who visits him is ready to spawn . |
| 5 | Note that the orbit is only as large as the Sun 's diameter and in addition the separation r of the stars varies by a factor over any orbit . |
| 6 | An interferometer swung around by the Earth 's rotation will ‘ synthesise ’ a dish as large as the separation of the two telescopes . |
| 7 | By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s . |
| 8 | It seems likely that there was a greater abundance of water in the past , though it is unlikely ever to have been as large as the abundance of water on the Earth . |
| 9 | By the end of the American war its establishment , which had been 2,738 in 1714 , had risen to 4,910 — twice as large as the rest of the financial administration . |
| 10 | By 1872 the free coloured population in Brazil was almost three times as large as the slave population , and even among pure Negroes the two groups were almost equal in number . |
| 11 | Fig 1 is a printout direct from the Creation 6 screen , but should be much too large to transfer direct to the console as its total number of bits is 180 × 176 = 31,680 , twice as large as the number of bits available in stitch pattern area memory . |
| 12 | The cloud is 20 times as large as the dust veil from the Mount St Helens eruption , and very rich in sulphur dioxide and sulphuric acid droplets produced as the sulphur dioxide reacts with water vapour . |
| 13 | The chamber was almost as large as the cavern above in which the Germans had built their base . |
| 14 | It is not as large as the wheel at Rotherfield Greys ( q.v. ) but is sometimes put in operation with a donkey , as a tourist attraction . |
| 15 | THE ryanodine receptor ( RYR ) is almost twice as large as the inositol trisphosphate receptor ( IP 3 R ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I used the old illustration : a ball of steel as large as the world , a fly alighting on it once every million years . |