Sentence examples for big rather than from inspiring English sources

In both instances, the suggestion was that big, rather than small, is beautiful.

For instance, women get information about breast-cancer screening in relative risk, which looks big, rather than absolute risk.

Those looking to get high or get big, rather than get well, can get anything they want here.

But Mr. Smith, who succeeded Mr. Hanman in 2006, said the D.F.A. had been "hung up on big rather than best".

Somehow, "clever" Alt-J have ended up with a Mercury prize while contrary, passionate Foals find themselves on their third album, trying to sound big rather than clever.

Wasn't the whole point of the bedroom tax that the Conservatives thought some people on benefits were living in houses that were too big rather than too small?

It will not be easy to encourage tiddlers into the formal economy, where they can concentrate on growing bigger rather than staying under the radar.

"All the discussion is about how to make buildings bigger rather than people smaller," he told a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this year.

Executives had been paid like bureaucrats, not just in that they were more or less given a job for life, but also because they were rewarded mostly for making their companies bigger rather than more profitable.

If you put sulphur dioxide into air that already has a haze of particles in it, the gas will glom onto those particles, making them bigger, rather than forming new small particles of its own.

But he sees his father through his death with great care and tenderness, and writes this story in a way that -- unlike many other father-son sports memoirs -- makes it bigger rather than smaller than the football story it parallels.