The phrase "ask for the large" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when requesting a larger size of an item, such as food or clothing, in a casual or informal context.
Example: "When you order at the café, don't forget to ask for the large if you want a bigger drink."
Alternatives: "request the large" or "order the large size".
(In Mr. Boehner's alternative reality, by the way, it just popped into Mr. Obama's head to ask for "the largest debt increase in American history, on the heels of the largest spending binge in American history". The president was required to ask for an increase by law, and the spending was mostly incurred by his Republican predecessor).
The cameras also showed a beaming Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as Clinton announced his plan to ask for the largest funding increase in the history of the biomedical research agency.
Especially if I had asked for the large, lower Fifth Avenue, classic-six, prewar, doorman, original-molding, million-dollar apartment.
The Hadamard maximal determinant problem asks for the largest n×n determinant with entries ±1.
But that is about 50percentt more than Renault is asking for the larger Zoe, and the eQ's 12-kilowatt-hour battery packs 45percentt less energy.
Edouard Machery, a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh by way of the Sorbonne, told subjects about a man named Joe who visits the local smoothie shop and asks for the largest drink available.
He had asked for the larger tax in order to fund his other priorities.
Therefore, when researchers returned and asked for the larger sign, they had very few barriers to break.
"This is not about our members demanding huge banker-sized bonuses or asking for the similarly large bonuses and pay increases given to many senior managers in the NHS.
Late last year Rusal asked for the single largest loan in Moscow's bailout program $4.5 billion.
