1.   It is oblong in shape and actually larger in area than the average ear.

2.   The Problem of Body Size At this stage body mass - or size - looms ever larger in importance.

3.   What are possibly the rubbish heaps of Our Mutual Friend loomed even larger in fact than they do in fiction.

4.   And others suggest that the legend of Ms. Brown loomed larger in the industry than among Cosmopolitan readers.

5.   Blood clots were significantly larger in patients who had recently smoked, even though some smokers had fewer overall risk factors for heart disease, researchers said.

6.   Brain areas that encode the sounds made by a piano are larger in skilled musicians than in people who have never played a musical instrument.

7.   But as illness from vaccine-preventable disease has plummeted, illness from the vaccines themselves, however rare, looms larger in the minds of some.

8.   But other concerns loom larger in Iraq.

9.   But the paycheck is much larger in Georgia.