Sentence examples similar to sizeable off from inspiring English sources

There's a bit of Eurotrash here, some British punk there, a swatch of Asian minimalism, and a sizeable off-cut of blue-collar chic from both sides of the Atlantic.

Hence the predilection for swift and sizeable lay-offs.

Since replacement loans are pegged not to the value of the original mortgage, but to the current value of the home (which in many cases is now well below the value of the mortgage) accepting the new mortgage means taking a sizeable write-off.

Over the past few months, there has been a sizeable sell-off over at Micron.

The authors also suggest that compliance and levels of severance pay set by law exhibit sizeable trade-offs.

The industry has condensed games development to focus on blockbuster titles – likely because of the rising costs of development requiring a commensurately sizeable pay-off at the end — and even those blockbusters are diminishing in quantity, as there are fewer big games companies left to make these increasingly expensive titles.

The government has paid off sizeable debts or been relieved of them.

Such variation would be very damaging for life, as it would not only destroy any complex organic molecules that could possibly form biological precursors, but also because it would blow off sizeable portions of the planet's atmosphere.

Yet it was Beerens, receiving the ball just inside the area before drilling a left-footed shot that took a sizeable deflection off Glenn Loovens to leave Keiren Westwood in the Wednesday goal standing, whose intervention counted the most.

Stuart Cole, professor of transport at the University of Glamorgan, said the scheme would cut a sizeable chunk off journey times.

From Iain Duncan Smith to George Osborne, senior ministers wrote off a sizeable chunk of this country as "skivers".