SIZEABLE


Meaning of SIZEABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a substantial/sizeable minority (= a large minority )

A sizeable minority of people sleep less than five hours a night without problems.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

amount

Indeed, many of the ISPs will offer you a sizeable amount of free Web space.

This was still a sizeable amount of text to process manually.

However, there needs to be a sizeable amount of the latter for the marriage to work.

minority

It was noted that a sizeable minority of the Shop still wanted to fight for differentials.

A sizeable minority said hardship was forcing them to give up education.

Foreigners were small in number and for the most part temporary residents, but there were two sizeable minority groups in the country.

number

More than 10 houses were burnt and a sizeable number of cattle stolen.

With a sizeable number of these prisoners now pardoned, this situation has apparently been resolved.

Just having one calf a year to sell instead of a sizeable number like most farmers.

portion

My eyes fell instead on Idi, his back taking up a sizeable portion of the first pew.

proportion

A sizeable proportion of the episcopal appointments recorded by Gregory are quite clearly uncanonical.

A sizeable proportion of these cases were suspected arson and were related to increased business failure because of high interest rates.

A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech.

The Cabinet closed ranks behind him and a sizeable proportion of his back-benchers followed suit.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A sizeable computer system contract with Credit Suisse excited investors in electronics firm Rolfe & Nolan which jumped 12p to 235p.

During 1990 they rose to a sizeable four million.

I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels, and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks.

More than 10 houses were burnt and a sizeable number of cattle stolen.

Some Prescott votes will transfer to Beckett, but the left should still be able to muster a sizeable block.

To determine this they want to do their own biopsy, and will require a sizeable lymph node to go at.

Where a grouping is a sizeable one it becomes divided into smaller subgroups.

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