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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sizeable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a substantial/sizeable minority (=a large minority)
▪ A sizeable minority of people sleep less than five hours a night without problems.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Indeed, many of the ISPs will offer you a sizeable amount of free Web space.
▪ This was still a sizeable amount of text to process manually.
▪ However, there needs to be a sizeable amount of the latter for the marriage to work.
minority
▪ It was noted that a sizeable minority of the Shop still wanted to fight for differentials.
▪ A sizeable minority said hardship was forcing them to give up education.
▪ Foreigners were small in number and for the most part temporary residents, but there were two sizeable minority groups in the country.
number
▪ More than 10 houses were burnt and a sizeable number of cattle stolen.
▪ With a sizeable number of these prisoners now pardoned, this situation has apparently been resolved.
▪ Just having one calf a year to sell instead of a sizeable number like most farmers.
portion
▪ My eyes fell instead on Idi, his back taking up a sizeable portion of the first pew.
proportion
▪ A sizeable proportion of the episcopal appointments recorded by Gregory are quite clearly uncanonical.
▪ A sizeable proportion of these cases were suspected arson and were related to increased business failure because of high interest rates.
▪ A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech.
▪ The Cabinet closed ranks behind him and a sizeable proportion of his back-benchers followed suit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sizeable computer system contract with Credit Suisse excited investors in electronics firm Rolfe & Nolan which jumped 12p to 235p.
▪ During 1990 they rose to a sizeable four million.
▪ I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels, and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks.
▪ More than 10 houses were burnt and a sizeable number of cattle stolen.
▪ Some Prescott votes will transfer to Beckett, but the left should still be able to muster a sizeable block.
▪ To determine this they want to do their own biopsy, and will require a sizeable lymph node to go at.
▪ Where a grouping is a sizeable one it becomes divided into smaller subgroups.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sizeable

also sizable, 1610s, "of relatively good, suitable, or desirable size, usually somewhat large" [Century Dictionary], from size + -able. Related: Sizeably; sizeableness.

Wiktionary
sizeable

a. (context British alternative in Canada English) fairly large

WordNet
sizeable
  1. adj. fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" [syn: ample, sizable]

  2. large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" [syn: goodly, goodish, hefty, respectable, sizable, tidy]

Usage examples of "sizeable".

Rel is navigable for sizeable vessels as far as Abray and barges could penetrate even further, virtually to Dalasor.

United States submarines Thread-fin and Hackleback, on the evening of 6 April, reported a sizeable force debouching from Bungo Suido, the southern entrance to the Inland Sea.

As a member of the clergy, it was his duty to bring the matter to the attention of his Oran, but he knew his superior well enough to be fairly sure that Oran Paldor would most probably approach the fat thief Rabell who was operating the business in the abandoned convenium and demand a sizeable share of the profits.

And a sizeable part of the physics and mathematics community is becoming increasingly convinced that string theory may provide the answer.

Travel writers wrote about its Asiatic tribes, the Tungus and the Yakuts and the Buriats, without ever mentioning the settled Russian population in Siberia, even though it was already sizeable.

At a respectful distance stood a sizeable crowd of somber and ragged citizens from the town, summoned by whatever served as a grapevine in that grapeless land.

He noted also with rueful pride that, despite the emission of the night, he was bearing before him as he left the kitchen, where he had eaten as well as cooked, a sizeable horizontal ithyphallus lazily swinging towards the vertical.

Thus in 1893 the British Museum acquired a sizeable number of Lamaistic images from a collection formed in Peking and in the following years there were further significant accessions, particularly from the Tibetan fringes of India as well as from Sikkim and Bhutan.

Weve had three sizeable border skirmishes between barons in the East - not anything to have Lyam send out his own army, but enough to make everyone east of Malacs Cross nervous.

Lucius dropped by with a sizeable flock of demons just in time for the service, but Signa would not step aside.

Tsurani troops put the red flower to every thatched roof in his barony last autumn, forcing the Baron now to spend sizeable sums for the hire of carpenters, daubers, and thatchers, but the mud and straw of LaMut invariably crumbled if a harsh thought was sent in its direction.

But on this side of the gorge the wind was less, and the next switchback came up among sizeable, snow-blanketed evergreens that cut off the sight of the valley.

He felt now that it might be possible to wrest those twenty sonnets from that volume and, by adding twenty more with the cooperation of the Muse, build a sizeable sequence which would make a book on its own.

There was a sizeable clique of the overdone, comic opera uniforms in among them, and now he discovered that they smoked top-grade cigars.

Rel is navigable for sizeable vessels as far as Abray and barges could penetrate even further, virtually to Dalasor.