HEATON: Well, so this is a moderate-sized earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference

A moderate-sized earthquake might last a few seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2005] Reference

They packed up nothing but a moderate-sized bundle and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

This is sufficient for a moderate-sized dish of lettuce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference

A moderate-sized tree, widely spread over North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference

They entered a moderate-sized apartment — indeed, Holywell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference

No longer did it consist solely of moderate-sized stones and pebbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Pharaohs]

He rented a moderate-sized house, and removed thither with his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Duty, and Other Stories] Reference

The Tuatha'an kept away from anywhere larger than a moderate-sized village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knife of Dreams]

On the first day of the month, a moderate-sized goat was put into his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

Not more than two moderate-sized fishes to a gallon of water is a safe rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

So this is literally the size of a moderate-sized city in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2009] Reference

REDDY: I would say probably the size of a moderate-sized grape, maybe smaller.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2005] Reference

The general scheme is the one in use in moderate-sized dressmaking establishments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

It was an immense pile, and seemed to cover ground enough for a moderate-sized town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

It is a moderate-sized tree, with thin gray bark, and slender, drooping warted branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

After several minutes of casual if complicated strolling, they came to a moderate-sized room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodhype]

It's housed in a moderate-sized domed building in a hilly stretch of the Sherman Oaks Sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tek Kill]

Half a dozen moderate-sized lumps of sugar to every two quarts of cream tend to keep it sweet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it] Reference

The wilderness seemed doubly desolate after seeing a city, even a moderate-sized one like Kajaani.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

A moderate-sized safe stood in his bedroom, constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World in 80 Days] Reference

She'd been here three months and hadn't grown used to finding a moderate-sized town, frozen in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Male Wanted]

I have a moderate-sized TV and am supposed to be working toward a bigger one, and then an even bigger one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnny | Johnny B. Truant] Reference

The orchids are mostly small or moderate-sized plants, few of them being more than a metre or so in height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

In short, the typical house slave worked either on a small farm or, at best, on a moderate-sized plantation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: American Slaves and Their History] Reference

One peculiarity about her is an enormous flat back, soft and almost as wide as a moderate-sized feather bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

He talks of building a moderate-sized tenement at the lower end of the lake, for the accommodation of travellers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

We have shown (Sec. 2) that, in a moderate-sized dominion, this council ought to have about five thousand members.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political Treatise] Reference

For example, moderate-sized record label EMI Music Japan formerly Toshiba-EMI has over ¥1.667 billion in capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two] Reference

It should be possible to take a good economics argument and write it out on the back of a moderate-sized postcard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyler Cowen Practices Reverse Psychiatry, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The Paradiseidae are a group of moderate-sized birds, allied in their structure and habits to crows, starlings, and to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

She ought to be shown in a room by herself; and, indeed, would occupy a moderate-sized one with her person and adornments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference

The above article mentions " at least some moderate-sized flares continuously produce high-energy neutrons in the solar corona ".    From Wordnik.com.  [MESSENGER Solves Solar Flare Mystery | Universe Today] Reference

"What that's telling us is that at least some moderate-sized flares continuously produce high-energy neutrons in the solar corona.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MESSENGER Solves Solar Flare Mystery | Universe Today] Reference

With two or three exceptions, all have become invisible in moderate-sized telescopes, or have become very faint, within a few months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

A great boulder as big as a moderate-sized house protected the place from view on the village side, and the place was bowered in trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

It is quite possible for a moderate-sized vessel to cross the bar at spring tides, and be perfectly landlocked and hidden among the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

They're signed to a moderate-sized "independent" label owned by a distribution company, and they have another two albums owed to the label.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference