Sentence examples similar to a big time operation from inspiring English sources

Even before he won the Ground zero commission, however, he was making plans to move the office to New York — the logical step in its transformation from an academic architectural atelier to a big-time operation.

"That's a big time for us".

"It takes a big time commitment".

That same year, in a move that prompted feature stories in the Times and elsewhere, he left the Andrea Rosen gallery, which had introduced and nurtured him, for the big-time operation of Larry Gagosian, who felt that his prices were "ridiculously low" and boosted them accordingly.

Julian's establishment is the front for a big-time drug-dealing operation, in which he's assisted by his headstrong older brother Billy Tom Burkee), a true lowlife.

"I think Al Qaeda is on the run in Afghanistan, the noose is tightening around bin Laden, and I think what will happen is that Al Qaeda is going to fragment, and that will make big-time operations more difficult," a senior American law-enforcement official said.

Undercover cop Grace Flint has been badly damaged, emotionally and physically, in a sting operation against a big-time money-launderer that has gone horribly wrong.

"But it's a big-time league.

He's a big-time competitor.

"Lee will be a big-time stud.

"And that's a big-time thing.