Mixed martial arts has become big business, with a large and growing fan base.
High-profile players like Hong Jin Ho are well aware that their game has become big business.
This is simply the way of life in a game that has become big business.
Scottish Enterprise is trying to speed up the rate at which such clusters become big exporters.
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The choice will be to merge and become big enough to compete, or to downsize.
"My friends, we have a chance to become Big Publishing's worst nightmare, " King says on his website.
With all these people throwing their spare won into the collection plate, mega-churches have become big businesses.
Both construction and services have grown enormously in recent years and have become big engines of employment growth.
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The key is to keep small things small and work things out before minor scrapes become big problems.
Analysts say it is very unlikely that other European Union states will become big sellers of the precious metal.
Gigantism compels executives to fund only research products that will become big sellers.
Small states can become big power brokers and television stations can ring up millions in ad sales to candidates.
Avon is bigger in Brazil then in the U.S., big, too, in Russia, and trying to become big in China.
Wilson comes from a long line of women with strong instincts about ideas that will become big in the future.
While hardcore fans will be tuning in for pleasure, the NFL Scouting Combine has become big business for all involved.
Although central banks hold a small share of the stock of America's external liabilities, they have become big marginal buyers.
Albuquerque, New Mexico is the where small problems are most likely to become big problems as a result of poor planning.
Online clothes sales have become big business, helping make the high-profile collapse of sportswear store Boo.com in 2000 seem a distant memory.
Education is no longer merely about academia but has become big business.
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The four-century-old mystery of where the colonists went has become big business.
The Portuguese banks have not become big players on the international scene.
New York and Columbus have become big-time trading partners in recent times.
Such a community can find it difficult to police itself, so that little problems, say joyriding, can become big ones, say riots.
Meehan says INQ pushed hard in the early days to invest in Facebook because the company could see it would become big.
It is the latest in a long line of British shows to try crossing the Atlantic, some of which have become big hits.
"Wedgwood and Waterford have become big names rather than big brands, in that it is not clear what they stand for, " he says.
DaimlerChrysler (as the merged company will be called) could become big in the huge Japanese market and strong across the whole Asia-Pacific region.
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"Both players should score more goals and if they start to convert the chances they could go onto become big money sales, " added Gradi.
Since it remains unclear how these ideas might get realized, it is hard to know whether they will become big sources of revenue and profit.
And who knows whether, in time, we will become big frackers?
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