adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a substantial/sizeable minority (= a large minority )
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A sizeable minority of people sleep less than five hours a night without problems.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
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Indeed, many of the ISPs will offer you a sizeable amount of free Web space.
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This was still a sizeable amount of text to process manually.
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However, there needs to be a sizeable amount of the latter for the marriage to work.
minority
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It was noted that a sizeable minority of the Shop still wanted to fight for differentials.
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A sizeable minority said hardship was forcing them to give up education.
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Foreigners were small in number and for the most part temporary residents, but there were two sizeable minority groups in the country.
number
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More than 10 houses were burnt and a sizeable number of cattle stolen.
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With a sizeable number of these prisoners now pardoned, this situation has apparently been resolved.
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Just having one calf a year to sell instead of a sizeable number like most farmers.
portion
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My eyes fell instead on Idi, his back taking up a sizeable portion of the first pew.
proportion
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A sizeable proportion of the episcopal appointments recorded by Gregory are quite clearly uncanonical.
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A sizeable proportion of these cases were suspected arson and were related to increased business failure because of high interest rates.
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A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech.
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The Cabinet closed ranks behind him and a sizeable proportion of his back-benchers followed suit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sizeable computer system contract with Credit Suisse excited investors in electronics firm Rolfe & Nolan which jumped 12p to 235p.
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During 1990 they rose to a sizeable four million.
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I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels, and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks.
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More than 10 houses were burnt and a sizeable number of cattle stolen.
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Some Prescott votes will transfer to Beckett, but the left should still be able to muster a sizeable block.
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To determine this they want to do their own biopsy, and will require a sizeable lymph node to go at.
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Where a grouping is a sizeable one it becomes divided into smaller subgroups.