Across sprawling plots, some owners had built the kind of gigantic, over-the-top houses common in the wealthy quarters of Indonesia's cities.
They are evacuated from Finchley, in London, to a country house, which is here increased to the size of a gigantic mansion, presided over by an apparently crotchety but actually very decent old boy, played (rather too fleetingly) by Jim Broadbent.
Yes, I occasionally get irritated when the steps in front of my house are littered with paper menus from two or three Chinese restaurants of the sort that seem to acquire their food from one gigantic kitchen, presided over in a dictatorial but not terribly inventive way by General Tso.
This article goes on to compare the media's gigantic yawn over this story, back then, with the frenzy that happened last week over Clinton's emails.
LED bulbs are a gigantic improvement over incandescent bulbs and even the compact fluorescents, or CFLs, that the world spent several years telling us to buy.
Even with compression, transmitting such gigantic files over the air or by cable would require more bandwidth, at far greater infrastructural cost, than broadcasters can afford.
There are at least five large problems that will compel the federal government to act in gigantic ways over the next few years.
The crowds and stadiums are a gigantic improvement over recent PES titles, and the match introductions for competitions like the Champions League recreate the television presentation perfectly.
She is carrying a gigantic creel over her shoulder and holding a long rod from which dangles, unceremoniously, a pancake-sized bluegill, her first.
As if they were skywriting on the ground, the artists trace a route for, say, a gigantic elephant over the streets of Brighton.
That's a pity, because LED bulbs are a gigantic improvement over incandescent bulbs and even the compact fluorescents, or CFLs, that the world spent several years telling us to buy.
