Last I heard, Brad was a big-deal attorney in Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

The photographs were for a big-deal book next Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Metathesis: big-deal reaction, Chemical & Engineering News.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Reading - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005] Reference

And he's a big-deal Catholic of the best social-action kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin Took Heat For Giggling After Radio Show Host Attacked Opponent As "Bitch"] Reference

I try to put aside enough for a few big-deal events per year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Mousse] Reference

HAMMER: Last night, big-deal event going down in Washington, D.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006] Reference

"I would not describe it as a big-deal procedure," said Dr. Paletta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pujols Is Baseball's Best] Reference

Four weeks, for some big-deal army investigation he could barely recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hard War]

‘Before I showed up in her life, she was this big-deal journalist …’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in the Fifth] Reference

The big-deal sculptor shoved his large hands into the pockets of his jeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Dreams May Come]

One of my friends got an internship at a big-deal law firm in New York City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megan Berry: No Filing Please: College Students in the Work Force] Reference

And my sister's too busy with her big-deal career in Silicon Valley to bother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Dread]

The number of great directors or big-deal film directors who all love the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2003] Reference

I know she's become a big-deal blogger, but she's never been on my to-read list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reference

I know she's become a big-deal blogger, but she's never been on my to-read list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reference

If you live in Atlanta or parts of northern Alabama, this is a big-deal day for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010] Reference

This is from the focus on the 'big-deal' towards the empowerment of the masses of our people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address to the Impumelelo Black Economic Empowerment Conference] Reference

Joining us now from New York are two of the co-founders who went on to big-deal media careers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2006] Reference

What was he, an ambulance driver, doing in a car with a big-deal doctor like Nicholas Taggert?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly] Reference

Two big-deal restaurants are in big-deal trouble — the “vendor slow pay” game has begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Blatant Restaurant Gossip] Reference

“If he had some kind of a longstanding big-deal client, he might have mentioned him at home.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

Not that there's any incorrect way, of course, to interpret what is basically a big-deal mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in story space] Reference

But Julia Allison keeps getting profiled by big-deal publications and may get her own reality show.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008] Reference

It's a classic evasion step; let's see if Jameson really can do this big-deal network reporter shtick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Of Storms]

In the educational world, this is a big-deal operation with nine offices in North America and an international hub in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: What's Inside YOUR Shoebox? Facing History...and Ourselves.] Reference

In 1988 he walked away from the big-money, big-deal Rat Pack reunion tour with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. after only a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dino: That's Amore] Reference

Day three of Comic-Con is here, bringing with it several potentially big-deal moments from the high-profile movie previews in Hall H.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic-Con 2010: 'Harry Potter,' Mark Ruffalo (maybe) and more on day three] Reference

This summer I was preaching every other week or more, and on some pretty "big-deal" occasions, such as a baptism and the Patronal feast.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

In other words, it is big-deal technology on a nanoscale.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

And this morning big-deal papers like the NY Times weighed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewNowNext] Reference

It IS a big-deal because we - the base - need to purge these rats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

So throwing one more trinket on my camel's back is a big-deal decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

This was the week for major-league, big-deal Broadway revival announcements.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The result is that the country lacks a trove of big-deal technologies at a crucial time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light Reading:] Reference

He and other speakers discussed several big-deal projects on the table for Arizona, including.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

Here it is, nerds: the full-length trailer for James Cameron's big-deal sci-fi action goddammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever] Reference