Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The planes were not big. They were just fifteen meters long with wings less than seven meters across.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Here are a few facts that help show just how big and busy Central Park is.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

VOA: special.2010.02.27

People usually just call it the Big Island.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

So we all went up to the Space Needle to watch the fireworks and this big cloud moved in and covered the Space Needle and so we just kind of watched the clouds and that was it."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

"The reason is that those plants are going to get so big that if you were to put three or four or six plants in, they are just going to be crowding each other out, and each plant is going to underperform."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"It felt like a big-ole monkey was off my back,". "It just felt so good to be able to have this moment.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Qi says he thinks there are just two big items today a house and a car.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"You know people just dismiss it all the time when in fact it's a clear biological disorder that has very big influences on affected individuals."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

La Push Beach down at the Quileute Rez.We're all going tomorrow. - Yeah, there's a big swell coming in.- And I don't just surf the Internet.

VOA: standard.other

The anti-tax,anti-big government Tea Party movement takes inspiration from the anti-tax protesters just before the American Revolution who threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"I'm not big on Michael Jackson and his music. I mean,I'm just not.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28