Sentence examples for high big from inspiring English sources

It has been widely noted that while valuations in the aggregate are high, big chunks of the stock market are cheap, and have been for some time.

As hundreds of workers scrambled to escape the flaming factory after a boiler explosion, they found the main sliding door — 30 feet high, big enough for a truckload of cotton — firmly locked.

But in a country where the hangover from decades of war and unrest is still palpable – literacy is low and poverty and corruption is high – big plans can be hard won.

In "Ski Holidays in the Alps," a pioneer guide written in 1961 by the champion British skiers James and Jeannette Riddell, the authors described the ski experience in Zermatt as "high, big, serious, and glorious".

The BBC also gave the second series a major marketing push with a 30ft high "Big Stig" given a "Chinese visa" for six months to tour 10 cities across China.

The high big suns and hot big colours of Nigeria are replaced by a grim wash of grey clouds, a sky as cheerful as the inside of an eggbox and the greasily unlovely streets of Peckham.

"If you're a low-market club and you can't have a high big-league payroll, you can't cut corners on the draft," Hendry said.

Other high big-city rates include San FranciscoandSeattle 9.5%), New Orleans (9%), Houston, Dallas and Charlotte (8.25%), Las Vegas (8.1%) and Philadelphia and Atlanta (8%).

He was followed by a 63-foot-high Big Bird and Nickelodeon's Little Bill, the parade's first African-American balloon.

The 66-foot-high big top is roughly parallel with East 116th Street across the water in Manhattan.

There isn't quite the appetite for such huge coasters in Britain, with our biggest one – Blackpool's 213ft-high Big One – being dwarfed by its American cousins.