101.   First Nationwide is buying a company almost as big as itself.

102.   Finding a metaphor is one thing, getting it on film is another, particularly when your metaphor is literally as big as a house.

103.   Flakes as big as half-dollars.

104.   Football is fine, but it is difficult for a child to truly identify with somebody as big as the World Trade Center.

105.   For Connors, both player and promoter yesterday, the match was as big as Wimbledon.

106.   Fists as gnarly and big as pumpkins.

107.   For the movie, Spielberg wanted a fiercer villain than the real-life velociraptors, so he decided to make them twice as big as the real ones.

108.   For them, the Microsoft Easyball provides a controller about twice as big as a standard trackball, colored bright yellow, with a single mouse button.

109.   For the first time during their improbable jaunt through the playoffs, the Padres have found themselves in a hole almost as big as the valley they call home.

110.   For those reasons, Bogen said he did not expect the residential market for voice-over-DSL service to be as big as the business market.