Sentence examples for approach the size from inspiring English sources

Most deals do not approach the size of those for a Lucy or a Sinatra.

AS cellphones start to approach the size of matchboxes, their antennas are shrinking, too.

If so, the central bank's lending would start to approach the size of the Federal Reserve's measures to help the United States economy.

The May Day events did not begin to approach the size of the demonstrations when immigration legislation was before Congress in 2006 and hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Los Angeles and other cities.

Considerable north-south disparity also exists in North America's drainage pattern: there are no rivers or lakes south of the Rio Grande that approach the size of those found to the more humid north.

But in total, these smaller projects could well approach the size of the Arctic reserves, and there is strong pro-drilling pressure in the state, where oil money finances nearly all the state budget, with enough left over to provide every resident in Alaska with an annual "oil dividend" check that last year reached $1,963.86, an all-time high.

The round, green Korean pears he was inspecting were approaching the size of tennis balls.

And larger rear-projection sets are producing images approaching the size of art-house movie screens.

The industry, with $6.4 billion in annual revenue in 2001, is approaching the size of the $8.4 billion movie industry.

Some of the last were so large that their fossilized shells approached the size of wagon wheels.

But no other municipal bankruptcy approaches the size of Detroit's and this case will be closely scrutinized, she said.