Example sentences of "size of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 2 | Extensity ( for example the size of a patch of light ) usually correlates with the number and spatial distribution of receptors activated . |
| 3 | Although Jimmy did not have the height and size of a Stan Smith , who was a top player at the same time , I saw other strengths in Jimmy 's game which I liked as I coached him . |
| 4 | But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance . |
| 5 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 6 | Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , yesterday posed for photographers with a Co-op credit card the size of a tea tray : ‘ There are middle class Labour supporters … no , it wo n't contribute to the credit boom … change your credit card and help Labour win . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Lavery , who had entered giant celery , onion , radish ( about the size of a young elephant 's tusk ) and leek ( about the size of a young palm tree ) and cabbages , explained how the latter 's immense size was achieved . |
| 8 | Mr Lavery , who had entered giant celery , onion , radish ( about the size of a young elephant 's tusk ) and leek ( about the size of a young palm tree ) and cabbages , explained how the latter 's immense size was achieved . |
| 9 | We were quite alone and the great church , the size of a cathedral , was unearthly in its floodlit , moonlit beauty . |
| 10 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 11 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 12 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 13 | By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it . |
| 14 | The relationship between the size of a dowry and status makes the dowry system easily adaptable to a class society , which means that as the economies of the villages move unevenly towards capitalism the dowry system remains of vital significance both as an essential accompaniment to and a reflection of this change . |
| 15 | The Parcours is monstrous , the size of a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with room for seven or eight , powered along in executive comfort by a Mercedes-Benz 32-valve V8 . |
| 16 | A small distinct hole is disclosed , the size of a man 's hand . |
| 17 | It was exciting to travel by private plane and helicopter with courtiers standing to attention , to be driven in a limousine the size of a small house , and to stay in palaces and castles in the lap of luxury . |
| 18 | Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany . |
| 19 | Otherwise , the bag is a big , nylon pastel effort that expands to the size of a small marquee and then folds away to postage stamp size ( except that , like a map , once unfurled it 's hellish folding it back again ) . |
| 20 | These are fleshy fruits about the size of a small olive . |
| 21 | All the small whales and dolphins have very large brains , roughly equivalent to the size of a human brain , although variation among species is considerable , even among species of similar body weight . |
| 22 | But the taxman 's generosity is only part of the problem : more pernicious is the way he imputes a set amount of taxable income according to the size of a car 's engine . |
| 23 | By the end of this period , it had grown to the size of a grapefruit — not much , admittedly , but a billion billion times larger than before . |
| 24 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 25 | They range from the Brookings Institution , with its vast battleship of a building on Massachusetts Avenue , to tiny lobbying outfits with offices the size of a doctor 's waiting room . |
| 26 | The implant is about the size of a saucer , 3.5 inches ( 9cm ) across and an inch deep . |
| 27 | They have telescope mirrors comparable in size to the one on the Hubble space telescope — but , one hopes , not afflicted by the Hubble mirror 's distortions — and produce images good enough to make out an object the size of a paperback book . |
| 28 | But limiting the size of a loan — to , say , a certain percentage of the value of a house or a multiple of the borrower 's income — would mainly curb the borrowing by first-time buyers . |
| 29 | Perhaps he 'll be sitting at home in Brighton next month not remembering a thing about it , perhaps in a year or two Sony or Akai will be marketing a small black box the size of a cigarette packet that cuts and scratches at the touch of a button . |
| 30 | To do this , your pre-raised seedlings must be pricked out into 3in pots , roughly the shape and size of a bulb planter . |