Example sentences of "not [adv] as big " in BNC.
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| 1 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 2 | After all , it was only 5.7 on the Richter scale , not quite as big as the one six years ago . |
| 3 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 4 | Oh not not quite as big as that . |
| 5 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |