Sentence examples for gigantic and small from inspiring English sources

PLANE crashes are all too common in Alaska, a state where the distances are gigantic and small puddle-jumpers are a routine form of transport.

It's not clear how it formed – various hypotheses, including a sudden increase in local precipitation and glacial meltwater, have been proposed – but either way, it was gigantic, and small fresh and saltwater lakes still dotting the region hint at their more sizeable past.

The shift in habitat use appears to be a distinct partition between gigantic and small Amphiuma, because A. pholeter spends almost its entire life in a specialized habitat that is not commonly utilized by the adults of A. means.

If A. antica is gigantic Amphiuma and a stem or sister taxon to modern species, then this would strongly support our first hypothesis that the ancestor of modern Amphiuma was gigantic and the relatively small A. pholeter results from miniaturization.

To those who have described the mall as "gigantic" and "futuristic": it is small and a bit old-fashioned.

But no matter the name, its model is small farms, villages, small towns, and small communities in gigantic cities.

The Therapsida encompass a wide variety of forms, from gigantic herbivores to dreadful sabre-toothed carnivores and small insectivores.

"Skype is gigantic and yet still a relatively small percentage of international call volume," notes Andreesen.

Maximum likelihood reconstruction of ancestral body size as a discrete character (gigantic vs small), assuming an equal rate of change between states, and considering extant and fossil taxa shows a marginally higher proportional likelihood for gigantism as the ancestral condition for modern Amphiuma (0.530) and also the ancestor of the clade A. means+A.

Mesquite v 2.5 [60] was used to analyze the ancestral states of the trait maximum body size (TL) as a discrete character (gigantic vs small) using a likelihood framework.

If that's the case, then you're really missing out on a great story of a gigantic company playing small ball and making serious changes late in the game for the better.