Sentence examples for for big numbers from inspiring English sources

County officials prepared for big numbers, at least 100 gay couples a day.

While the crowds gradually dwindled on Thursday organisers were bracing themselves for big numbers at the weekend.

For a star known for big numbers and no rings, that would be the most unexpected twist of all.

And William C. Thompson Jr. is relying on the muscle of the United Federation of Teachers and pushing for big numbers beyond Manhattan, especially central Brooklyn, which is home to many highly engaged black voters, and the swath of Queens from Queens Village to Jamaica and down to the Rockaways.

In the late summer, as gas exploration rigs float their way here down the Mackenzie River, the town is bracing for big numbers of workers out on the Beaufort Sea this winter, once the ice is thick enough to support the rigs and trailer camps hauled out on skids.

But investments in individual institutions don't make for big numbers to announce – not like large-scale investments such as the new Crick Institute – and standing in front of a newly upgraded fume hood doesn't make for such an impressive a photo op for the minister.

However, the reconstruction of evolutionary trees for big number of species poses a significant computational challenge when using complete proteomes, even when relatively fast pairwise sequence comparison algorithms are used.

Like Larry David, the "Seinfeld" producer who now has his own show on HBO, Mr. Emanuel, a favorite of the press, is going to have to go for bigger numbers.

The women who work in the restaurants cook exactly the same way as they would at home, just for bigger numbers.

Small numbers and tens go on the left fingers and thumb, up to thousands he uses the right hand, and for bigger numbers... well, Bede may here have betrayed a lack of human company, because to represent 90,000 he explained that you "grasp your loins with the left hand, the thumb towards the genitals".

This effect refers to the fact that, within a given interval, people in cultures where numbers are written from left to right are faster at making judgements (e.g. odd/even judgements) about smaller numbers with the left hand but are faster with their right hand for bigger numbers [2].