Sentence examples for were a big item from inspiring English sources

I was 13 years old at the time, boys were a big item on my to-do list, and so I kind of just nodded awkwardly to placate him.

Security didn't seem to be a big item for either the landlord or Manny Troy.

"It's a big item," he said, but not one that gives him much pause.

Seafood is a big item at both operations, with an added emphasis here on pastas and pizzas.

That could be a big item, or at least a tricky one, if Ahmed Wali is busy working on his brother's campaign.

But there was no getting round the fact that this was a big item that wrote off an entire wall of my parents' house.

The story of the ballot issue twists around a difficult point of state election law, which is one reason that the State Supreme Court decision on May 6 has not been a big item on the 11 o'clock news.

"It's a big item that most of them have not budgeted for," said David Dannon, vice president for the consumer industries and retail products practice at Kearney, a Chicago-based subsidiary of Electronic Data Services.

Employers, which typically still pay the greatest share of health costs, are putting up with the substantial increases because they know that coverage is a big item in recruiting and retaining workers, said Helen Darling, president of the Washington Business Group on Health, a group of big companies nationwide.

After fuel, water will be a big item of supply by weight.

Top Treats Digital televisions will also continue to be a big item, particularly as the U.S. phases out traditional analog service by next February.