Assertion: blue whale | /r/HasProperty | large
Facets:
value: extremely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Even though the blue whale is extremely large it has a relatively slender body allowing it to travel up to 30 miles per hour for short bursts when it feels threatened or startled.
text: As technology, boats, and hunting equipment continued to evolve throughout the centuries the rate at which whales were being killed greatly increased and continued to shrink the existing whale populations, especially those of the blue whale and because blue whales were so large and whalers got paid top dollar for these mammals they were continually hunted by competitors until near extinction.
text: As technology, boats, and hunting equipment continued to evolve throughout the centuries the rate at which whales were being killed greatly increased and continued to shrink the existing whale populations, especially those of the blue whale and because blue whales were so large and whalers got paid top dollar for these mammals they were continually hunted by competitors until near extinction.