The phrase "as big a role" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a comparative phrase that means "the same size or importance as a role." It is often used to compare the size or significance of one thing to another. Example: "His leadership played as big a role in the company's success as the financial investments did."
And they said that cyberweapons would now have as big a role in NATO planning as guns and tanks.
Nonetheless, because the parties make clear who is their candidate for chancellor before the vote, personality plays as big a role as party platforms.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Supporting Actor, Doubt, Oscars Despite having as big a role as Meryl Streep, in the face of stiff competition for leading man gongs, Hoffman has been pushed as a supporting actor.
But his colleague Ziv Maor, a spokesman for Israel's chief rabbinate, argues that as head of the department of personal status and conversions, Rabbi Tubul plays as big a role in protecting the state as the Israel Defence Forces.
If there is one thing that will resonate about the 2010 N.F.L. draft, it will not be the slides of quarterbacks Jimmy Clausen and Colt McCoy, who were this year's reminders that serendipity plays nearly as big a role in where some players are drafted as evaluation does.
"We tend to think of sexual behavior as instinct-driven," Domjan says, "yet our results show that learning plays as big a role in reproduction".
But Democratic Party strategists contend that in Congressional races, in which local sensibilities and attitudes often play as a big a role as national trends, candidates like Mr. Bright could potentially deprive Republicans of the one realm where they have enjoyed a significant advantage: social issues.
But at this point in the cycle, at least, we haven't seen a lot of evidence that well-funded super PACs have played as big of a role as once feared.
In a survey of sustainability experts released Thursday, 90% of respondents said that companies would need to play as big of a role as national governments in combating climate change to prevent environmental disaster.
Design plays just as big of a role in technology as computer science.
Keep in mind that, while colors are important, designs and patterns play just as big of a role.
