Because of the open-air stage, actors had to shout very loudly and make big motions to be heard and seen by all.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

A big wheel may be the head of a company, a political leader, a famous movie star.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

A big part of her job will be to look for ways to cut government waste.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

Wireless telephones could be a big part of the electronics industry's return to growth.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

My parents always tell me that I loved Big Bird." No program about "Sesame Street" would be complete without presenting some of its most famous songs.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

The more I thought of it the more I realized that any hole in the ground that could house such a gigantic army of bats must be a whale of a big cave .

VOA: special.2009.12.07

"The more I thought of it the more I realized that any hole in the ground that could house such a gigantic army of bats must be a whale of a big cave ...

VOA: special.2011.04.11

"You want to hold a review and you want to exclude the one big issue which should be right at the heart of that review."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

(SPEAKING) He says it will not be a big part of national consumption, but Grand says it will certainly give other people the idea to do the same thing across West Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

U.S.officials hope it can be convened before key big-power discussions of the Iranian nuclear issue begin in New York during the third week of this month, on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly session.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

And if all of the possible brackets were filled out on standard paper and stacked on top of each other, how big would the pile be?" It would actually go from the earth to the moon and back,1.1 million times,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

The paper's authors tried to take into account other factors, but they admit it may not have been entirely possible to quantify differences in, for example,the recipient's health, which can be a big factor in the success of a transplant.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

He says the public has a right to be angry about the latest tale of abuse: the decision by insurance giant AIG to hand out big bonuses to executives, even though taxpayer dollars are keeping the company afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

He said the Iranian official told the diplomats that even if Tehran accepted a big power offer of last November to export some of its enriched uranium to be reprocessed as fuel for a research reactor, the broader Iranian enrichment drive would continue.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14