Sentence examples for proved too big from inspiring English sources

IN THE end the gap proved too big to close.

The game proved too big for too many Jaguars.

The law, signed in 1999, allowed investment banks and commercial banks to merge, creating the Wall Street powerhouses that eventually proved too big to fail during the crisis.

A senior ESPN executive acknowledged the discussions and said that in addition to concerns about distribution, the issue of which ESPN games would be shared proved too big an obstacle.

Dallaglio was hoisted on to a golf cart after dislocating his right ankle and breaking his fibula but the cart proved too big to transport him beneath the stand for treatment, forcing Lions' medical staff to make alternative arrangements.

Such hurdles proved too big even for someone like Mr White, the former mayor of the state's biggest city, as well as Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, who came up short in a 2002 bid for the United States Senate.

But that may prove too big a challenge, even for a lucky baron.

AGES 3-6 -- The film could prove too big, loud and incomprehensible for this age.

Recession itself could also prove too big a hurdle: in Chicago, TIF-district tax revenues are slowing, and so is building work.

Investment banking is hurting as the capacity built up during the boom time proves too big to support the very low revenue flow in the future.

As time went on, it became increasingly clear that his physical fragility was going to prove too big an obstacle for him to overcome.