Using sizeable instead of big

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big

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because you could use big in many

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contexts

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many different situations you may need

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to use big

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but in this case sizeable is an advanced

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or proficiency

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alternative sizable the company invested

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a sizable amount of money in the project

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so it's often used for quantities often

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money really a sizable

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quantity a sizable amount of money so

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it's

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it means big but it's not

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emphatic in this case it's not very big

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it's just quite big sizable

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as with everything in english it depends

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on your intonation a lot if you say i

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was a

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sizeable amount of money then that

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sounds like it's a lot

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but if you if you're using neutral

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intonation it just means quite a lot

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and again the opposite is small

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so a good adjective for small is poultry

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poultry so nurses are paid a poultry

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salary

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considering how hard they work

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so again it's it's small but it's

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extremely small it's almost like it's

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insufficient uh part of the meaning of

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poultry is that it's so small it's

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insufficient so that's why i use the

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example