Example sentences of "[noun] the size of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the size we 're to have , faith the size of a mustard seed . |
| 2 | But when Jesus says , faith the size of a mustard seed will do , then we have our doubts . |
| 3 | The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed . |
| 4 | With 5,000 different states the size of the bigram and trigram matrices are enormous ( 2.5e07 and 1.25e11 elements respectively ) . |
| 5 | More often than not they are located ten miles outside town under a tin roof , in wasteland surrounded by a car park the size of Brazil . |
| 6 | In this instance the size of the venture will determine the form of enterprise . |
| 7 | But the basic trouble in the Gulf is that the United States is exclusively geared to fight a major world-scale war , and its forces can not fight any other , not even against enemies the size of Grenada and Panama . |
| 8 | Cities the size of Glasgow , Bristol and Hull are no longer responsible for education or social services . |
| 9 | She noticed one of the wooden struts on the opposite wall had snapped off leaving an aperture the size of a football in the corner of the car . |
| 10 | For various reasons the size of a public library 's bookfund is more often the result of circumstances and local politics than of reasoned calculation . |
| 11 | In addition the size of certain orders was to be scaled down . |
| 12 | With this easy-availability of text the size of corpora becoming available are orders of magnitude larger than those originally envisioned . |
| 13 | In non-breeding groups the size of the gathering can swell and swell , especially during migrations of the type seen in wildebeest and salmon . |
| 14 | What fish : tunny the size of small islands themselves . |
| 15 | You had better get Fisher to plain [ sic ] a very thin teak board the size of the large books for protection , and a common book cover from the work room will do for the protection of the other side , spreading the four parts of the Synopsis over and sealing the whole in brown paper . |
| 16 | Icicles the size of stalactites hung from the eaves of wayside stations . |
| 17 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 18 | They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . |
| 19 | Even for objects the size of stars , the attractive force of gravity can win over all the other forces and cause the star to collapse . |
| 20 | Armed with illustrations , specifications and his own ideas about his target market , plus knowledge of any built-in prejudices he had about the kind of media he preferred — TV , newspapers , posters , et cetera — plus of course the size of the budget he was prepared to allocate , she would be able to report with the least possible delay to Sebastian Grantham . |
| 21 | So there 's Arthur , yards of red tongue drippin' out of his slaverin' jaws , teeth the size of — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And who has a grudge the size of Mount Everest against you ? ’ |
| 23 | It is nearly 10 times the size of the UK 's biggest industrial conglomerate , British Aerospace including its Rover car subsidiary , and dwarfs even the mighty Japanese motor manufacturers Toyota and Nissan . |
| 24 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 25 | However brain size alone is not an absolute indication of intelligence - elephants , for example , have brains four times the size of our own . |
| 26 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |
| 27 | The industry is dominated by Michelin , Goodyear and Bridgestone , each two to three times the size of either Continental or Pirelli . |
| 28 | But it could be argued that the policy of spending on bases rather than on troops has paid off since Saudi Arabia has been able to accommodate , with astonishing ease , a multinational army 20 times the size of its own . |
| 29 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 30 | High-precision laboratories can produce results with error terms of less than plus/minus 20 years ; they employ very carefully controlled measurement procedures , but they also require samples three to four times the size of those used by normal-precision , conventional laboratories . |