The phrase "about this large" is not standard in written English and may be considered awkward or unclear.
It can be used informally to describe an approximate size or extent, but it is better to use more precise language.
Example: "The box is about this large, indicating it can hold several items."
Alternatives: "approximately this size" or "roughly this big."
Yet for now, they still know too little about this large and diverse continent, he said.
The rapid growth of the program says much about this large swath of California, long mired in poverty.
In an address at the Toronto International Film Festival last Tuesday, Liesl Copland, a digital media expert from the William Morris Endeavor Entertainment agency, told a small group of documentary filmmakers about this large, if barely visible, problem.
"Why would the French ever care about this large, coarse-leaved cabbage?" asked Sanaë Lemoine, a French writer in Brooklyn who helped found a food blog called the Walkin Kitchen (and cooks a lot with kale).
There is a growing concern about this large river system because its channels are subject to frequent migration, threatening engineering structures and resulting in various environmental and social consequences which may be compounded by climatic variability, land use change, and agricultural intensification as the basin experiences rapid population growth.
When Maurice Hornocker began the first long-term study of cougars in the Idaho wilderness in 1964, little was known about this large cat.
What I would accept is there is an issue that local authorities are saying about the profiling, about how this large amount of money ramps up.
Predictions about this "large-wake" hydrodynamic regime are compared with literature data.
"I'm very excited about this large-scale collaboration," said Witten, an assistant professor of psychology and PNI.
"When you're talking about this large-scale studio filmmaking, the size of the camera is pretty irrelevant compared to the massive difficulties and the massive resources you're wrangling on a daily basis," he said.
It was always about this larger societal function.
