Example sentences of "big than a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 2 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 3 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 4 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 5 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 6 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 7 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 8 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 9 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 10 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 11 | The lift was a little bigger than a phone box . |
| 12 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 13 | Most days there was that colour spread from the shore to the sky , bigger than a horse trough . |
| 14 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 15 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 16 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 17 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 18 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |