not big
Example Sentences
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The gaps between defence and midfield were not big, but they were not covered adequately by United.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
We are not big spenders, except for traveling abroad once a year.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
At 5-foot-11 and 192 pounds he’s not big for the position, and according to a school release ran the 40 in 4.46 seconds, which is fast but not blistering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
The nearby Ambassador Bridge is nearly 100 years old and not big enough to handle the cross-border trade that has ballooned since the North American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, came into force in 1994.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
But after I had turned up the whole patch—in fact after I had it partly planted—I realized that it was really not big enough.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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