1.   The other principle, bigger cylinders, was less successful, mainly because existing phonographs could not cope with it.

2.   And he complained that the BMW engines run at much higher revolutions per minute, in contrast to the slower engines with bigger cylinders in a traditional Rolls-Royce.

3.   Meteorologists commonly use a gauge that consists of a small straight-sided cylinder within a bigger cylinder, Miner said.

4.   The rain is collected by a funnel at the top of the smaller cylinder, which is only a fraction of the diameter of the bigger cylinder.