Sentence examples for size of something from inspiring English sources

A substantial United States lender the size of something like SunTrust Banks would fit the bill.

"When you double the size of something, it really looks just 50 to 70 percent bigger, not twice as big".

The receiving antenna is about the size of something that could easily fit against the bottom of a conventional laptop computer.

If I could have something to make that [drum machine] technology better, it would be great to have it the size of something like the Nokia N8.

And for Christie, who's fast emerging as the leading GOP spokesman on deficit reduction, and just about everything else, Matthews had this choice piece of advice: "If he really wants to shrink the size of something, maybe he should start with supper?" Rude and offensive yes, but was Matthews merely vocalising what many others think?

While the service has seen extreme growth in recent months, Twitter is still nowhere near the size of something like Facebook in terms of users (200+ million versus maybe 30 some million).

Today, once I'd bought my medium-sized bowl of coffee and struggled to a seat through the gridlock of baby buggies the size of Humvees, something nasty happened.

I am keen to follow Tintin, for example, as he pursues a chunk of meteorite that has fallen into the Arctic Ocean, in "The Shooting Star" (1942), but once he steps onto the bobbing rock, and finds it brimming with giant spiders and sprouting toadstools the size of elephants, something in the story drowns.

Currently a practical size of twenty-something is used when learning from the whole genome, or the whole set for small sets of genes (up to 40).

The style of the early 60s, the gentility, the sanity of pace; even the boarding cards looked of manageable size and made of something scrumptious like tasselled vellum, rather than Kleenex and spit.

How well a person can see is largely determined by the size of the eyeball, something a pair of glasses cannot change.