Sentence examples for while sizeable from inspiring English sources

With the hosts needing only one wicket and the tourists only four runs short of victory, Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz were at the crease while sizeable chunks of the population of both nations watched on tenterhooks.

The shift in the rankings occurred because high net worth individual gains in Europe, while sizeable, were far less than those in Asia-Pacific, where the region's economies saw continued robust growth in both economic and market drivers of wealth," the report said.

With no apparent irony, despite the cholera stalking the grubby city outside the courtroom, the mayor's lawyers pointed to his achievements in waste management as a mitigating factor for the judge to consider.The judge duly eschewed a custodial sentence for a fine that, while sizeable, was a slap on the wrist compared with Freetown's Pademba Road prison.

We find negative coefficients of 15.8 and 19percentt for overweight and obese immigrant women, but while sizeable they are not significant at conventional levels.

Parental effects, in particular paternal effects, were significant in the juvenile stage, while sizeable additive and non-additive effects were seen in the lifetime reproductive success of F1 daughters.

Observers believe his conversion to extending the concept to withdrawals from West Bank settlements beyond the controversial "security fence" - while keeping sizeable chunks of Arab land - is genuine.

Ethnic Latvians (the majority) voted for the ethnic Latvian parties (mostly neoliberal), while the sizeable 30% minority of Russian speakers voted with similar discipline for their party, Harmony Centre (loosely Keynesian).

So while a sizeable stack of games feature zombies right now, it's foolish to assume they're all alike.

In my head I always picture dragging a thin, crinkly bottle of water across my dry, chapped lips, while the sizeable group I'm with argue over whether or not it is worth trying to go to the beach before we head back into a dusty festival site to see The Horrors or something terrible like that.

In liquid cultures, cells progressively down-modulated Oct-4 expression while a sizeable cell fraction expressed CD34 de novo.

Most (N=90, 52.3%) had completed lower secondary school, and one-quarter (N=42, 24.4%) primary school, while a sizeable minority (N=28, 16.3%) were illiterate.