1.   Analysts here have questioned why a bank that is big only by Irish standards should be in as many markets and businesses as Allied Irish is.

2.   Arkansas cashed in big by winning the NCAA title a year ago.

3.   But that spread is not particularly big by standards of the last decade.

4.   Can a sextet from Manhattan make it big by going that far off the beaten wall?

5.   Dr. Gould was renowned by friends and foes for an ego, big even by Harvard standards.

6.   Finally, Jerry Krause made his eyes grow big by conjuring images of Scottie Pippen in Celtic green.

7.   Instead, they have to attend a baseball game and try to make themselves feel big by belittling athletes who have achieved something in life.

8.   These effects are assumed to be modest because the Mexican economy is not big by the standards of industrial powers.

9.   While Nippon Credit and Hokkaido Takushoku are not household names in the United States, they are big by any standard.

10.   One witness said the waiter tried to use the fire extinguisher, but the flames were too big by then.