1.   Although the dropping of the charges was a big story, it faded as quickly as the Cowboys in the playoffs.

2.   He had promised the newspaper a big story on a major celebrity.

3.   The farm was so cut off from the world, even big stories like that one escaped our notice.

4.   The kind of big story that can propel a cub reporter into the stratosphere of the newspaper world.

5.   This is why current affairs programmes concentrate so much on doom and gloom, even away from the big stories of the day.

6.   And no one who knows Thayer was surprised that he was the one who landed the big story.

7.   And Sawyer had just swiped a big story from Walters.

8.   Are journalists to be forgiven their trespasses in the interest of putting the big story out there for the world to see?

9.   As you watched the grief-stricken friends and relatives arrive, mourners at an impromptu public wake, the realization dawned that this is the big story.

10.   Because it is a big story, as far as the severity of it, the blood and all that stuff.