Example sentences of "bigger than [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 7 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 8 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The lift was a little bigger than a phone box . |
| 11 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 12 | Most days there was that colour spread from the shore to the sky , bigger than a horse trough . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 15 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 16 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 19 | At over a 9% increase on the previous year , the education budget is bigger than the defence budget . |
| 20 | And yet the horizontal moon might look bigger than the meridian moon in the other , non-objective , sense of ‘ looks ’ . |
| 21 | Only the Pentagon is bigger than the Casa Republicii , Ceauşescu 's most visible legacy to his people . |
| 22 | An organization is bigger than the sum total of its people . |
| 23 | Finally , you will get slightly improved sound insulation as well — although for best results you need an air gap bigger than the 20mm maximum usually found in sealed units , and you may want to consider having secondary acoustic double glazing as well . |
| 24 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone |
| 25 | Intel 80486DX 33MHz , 200Mb hard disk , and 4Mb of RAM in a package not much bigger than an 750g corn flake packet . |