The lock was colossal, a big black box screwed right into the wood.

NEWYORKER: Teaching

The price war is adding to the pain that America's big tobacco firms are suffering from a series of colossal lawsuits from smokers and state governments.

ECONOMIST: Ups and downs for Big Tobacco

Our star can sometimes despatch big bursts of shortwave and longwave radiation, superfast particles and colossal volumes of charged gas (plasma) in our direction.

BBC: UK 'can cope with solar superstorm'

To precipitate a crisis in the nearest big Muslim country, and one that is both democratic and secular, would be a colossal blunder.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne