Sentence examples for big figures of from inspiring English sources

These big figures of a million – they should be public; it's not a lot of people.

Violet Loraine called her former co-star "one of the greatest comedians the world has ever known", while the theatrical producer Basil Dean opined that "George was a great artist, one of the last and the really big figures of his era.

The big figure of the man will always be there.

After the season, Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms, the two biggest figures of the late 1980s and early 1990s Giants teams, retired.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who has quit the cabinet, is a former Conservative leadership contender and a big figure on the right of the party.

In a decade where hip-hop has been dominated by the Neptunes and Timbaland, Dr Dre – the biggest figure of the Nineties – has achieved little of note, other than to launch 50 Cent upon a, er, grateful world.

We spoke with a number of big figures there – the biggest being Dan Gilbert of Quicken Loans who bought out most of the old downtown core and filled it with teams of young men and women who work the phones all day.

Pre-revenue stage companies are OK, as long as they have a business model that works and potentially can get to big figures in terms of user base.

But there are a lot of big figures in that changing room and he's just one of them.

From the earliest days of his career he cut a big figure, but of late he's been filling it out too, playing the boss character to the hilt.

There ought to be more unfettered criticism of the big figures in hip-hop, and there's far too little of it right now".