Example sentences of "[adj] and very large " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 2 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 3 | Liverpool Street station , in process of being rebuilt , was dirty and noisy and very large . |
| 4 | It was thick and heavy and very large across his narrow shoulders , but it was the finest jacket Frankie had ever seen , and it belonged to him . |
| 5 | It is then a matter of smaller and larger transfer of the two components , rather than very small and very large . |
| 6 | Well the story that I have to tell you to begin with comes all the way from a very hot and very large continent . |
| 7 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 8 | It is elliptical and very large — 445 by 341 feet — and was used , as was the custom , for gladiatorial combat , dancing and animal baiting . |
| 9 | The doors opened and they stepped into a thickly carpeted , perfectly silent and very large room , again rampant with greenery , in which a girl was sitting behind a desk smiling brightly . |