Example sentences of "how big " in BNC.
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| 1 | How big are the audiences for sport on television ? |
| 2 | ‘ The rod with the smelt on soon went again and I did not realise how big the fish was and steered it around the swim for a minute to break the ice . |
| 3 | I like railway stations — you know , how big and noisy and busy they are . |
| 4 | Mrs Marcos does not say how much money she would turn over , or how big the Marcos fortune is . |
| 5 | Whenever I drove to a hospital my question would not be whether there was a demonstration but how big . |
| 6 | So how big is this scene ? ’ |
| 7 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 8 | The change from mythic beings to human beings , while it demeaned individual younger members of the royal family ( ‘ How big is Fergie 's bottom ? ’ ) , did make their personal lives easier in one respect . |
| 9 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 10 | If you ever fall in it you suddenly realise just how big it is . ’ |
| 11 | It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said . |
| 12 | JUST how big are the savings a diesel car driver can expect over petrol motoring ? |
| 13 | Whether you need planning permission and/or Building Regulations approval for your garage depends on how big it is and where it stands . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , astronomers have only a vague idea of how big the Universe really is because of uncertainties in their ‘ cosmological distance scale ’ . |
| 15 | TOM : How big 's the seed ? |
| 16 | ‘ How big was the trout , Dad ? |
| 17 | How big are positional fields ? |
| 18 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How big was I ? ’ |
| 20 | I was quite preoccupied with how big bodies like this were accountable and served people 's needs . |
| 21 | Before you can begin to plan the layout of your shop , of course , you need to know how big it is . |
| 22 | ‘ We must finish with totally relevant insights about how big business had made us see nature today . |
| 23 | Consumers can push buttons on a display unit to see how much electricity , gas or water they have used , what it is costing them , and how big their next bill is likely to be . |
| 24 | How big is the company ? |
| 25 | Teacher : How big is your new baby ? |
| 26 | People know us , but they do n't know how big we are , ’ she adds . |
| 27 | I wondered how big the pile at home would have to be to last the year . |
| 28 | Can you tell how big a penis will be when it is erect by looking at it when it 's limp ? |
| 29 | How big is the average relaxed penis ? |
| 30 | ‘ How big is the catastrophe ? ’ |