Sentence examples for of being big from inspiring English sources

Being well-represented in the Big Apple is part of being big time.

Great thing about Twitter: all the gratification of being big enough to attract stalkers, none of the danger.

"The previous strategy of being big is no longer viable," said Mark Lambert, an analyst with Merrill Lynch.

"I think that your regular family is conservative, but dreams of being big spenders and taking risks.

The smaller fry are extolling what they consider to be the benefits of being small, like nimbleness, and the drawbacks of being big, like high overhead.

Grigson recommends serving it in "little rolls", which feel festive and have the benefit of being big enough to pack a real punch.

"It wasn't a case of being big-headed or temperamental that kept me from doing interviews during the last three years.

Don Allen, a retired agent who until 2005 supervised a multiagency task force in San Diego investigating corruption among border officers, said internal affairs units did not always readily share information and often resented any sense of being big-footed by an outside agency.

While much of this is dumb – the show credits Atlantis as the site of basically every episode from Greek mythology, Pythagoras sits around doodling triangles, an ageing Hercules constantly insists his obvious heft is the result of being big-boned – the show is actually a fun, fast-paced romp.

It's not about being bigger for the sake of being bigger.

Milton Friedman and most of us were big advocates of that.