1. With the. The best kind, the highest rank; a state or example of excellence, fame, etc. to hit the big time: to become notable or famous.
2. To a great degree, on a large scale; extremely
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Speaker: I can understand it. But when it comes to writing it, my grammar's really bad. Interviewer: Oh okay. That's tough. Speaker: Yeah. So it's dropping my mark big time. Interviewer: Aw oh well, that's okay. Speaker: But I don't need French (laughs). |
Very much - intensifier |
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Speaker: Oh fabulous. Um, they had so much outside help come in. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Major, big time. The government stepped in, everybody stepped in. They set up the arena as a refugee type place. |
Very much - intensifier |
Speaker: But if you don't, you'd have- no and when you come out of university, you owe money, you owe money big time- |
A lot of - intensifier |
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Oh, she's got to get into it, involved in it, something to do with- "Oh, buy some shares in this, it's going to be big-time money." |
A lot of - intensifier |
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Speaker: In with the stuff they're supposed to make for the road, so our entire front like road is made with gold in it, they screwed up big time (laughs). |
Very much - intensifier |
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Speaker: Yeah. So I remember the ice cream- Interviewer: Yeah (laugh). Speaker: (Laughs). big time. |
Very much - intensifier |
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Speaker: Like he hated even being away in Sudbury for school. Interviewer: Really? Interviewer: Who? Speaker: He's a big home body, big time more than- Interviewer: I like Sudbury. Speaker: Yeah. |
Intensifier |
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Speaker: Like it's a big time hockey, so, um, it was pretty cool. |
Important - intensifier |
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Speaker: But forestry is big time up here already wth Haliburton-Forest and U-of-T forestry program. They have like- like- they have accommodation and-everything up here. |
Important or common |
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Interviewer: So they- lacrosse was actually a sport that they played back in those days. Speaker: That's correct! Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: big time. |
A lot - intensifier |
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Interviewer: Okay, train was really important. Speaker: Oh big time. |
Very - intensifier |
Interviewer: Yeah, okay, so curling was a popular sport. Speaker: Oh big time. |
Very - intensifier |
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Well he sold them the rest of the lot. But there was only- that's when they got down far enough so the- they built the office and their entrance down to the offices big time. |
In a large way - intensifier |
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And the community, a very Catholic community in Combermere, and they just- it just became big-time news and concern and parents were wanting to take their kids out, like it just became a big issue, and so I- I had to do something. |
Important - intensifier |
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Interviewer: Stone picking, so this was a well-known. Speaker: Oh big-time, for sure. You-know? Yeah I mean you don't- you don't plant a crop ah in- in if you can get st-- like first of all you plough it right? |
Very much - intensifier |