For example, in recalling a phone number, the person could chunk the digits into three groups first, the area code (such as 123), then a three digit chunk (456), and, last, a four digit chunk (7890).

In other words, China owns a huge chunk of America s ballooning debt.

In these images we see ice from enormous glaciers, ice sheets that are hundreds of thousands of years old breaking up into chunks, and chunk by chunk by chunk, iceberg by iceberg, turning into global sea level rise.

About every 10 steps, they lean back and try to take a chunk out of your leg.

And I think an even more wonderful speech, which I'm going to read a big chunk of, which sums up what I said at the beginning about believing there is more to life than money, and more that we should try and measure than money.

The central government is arguably solvent, but a significant chunk of municipal and provincial bank debt seems underwater.

In this state, a higher priority process will get a larger chunk of the CPU time than a lower priority process.

(The real news in his victory was that he got a chunk of white men, who rarely support a Democrat.)

A chunk of rock six miles across, moving something like 50 times the speed of a rifle bullet, slammed into the Earth.

The UAE is spending a chunk of its oil money to develop Masdar, the world s first zero carbon, zero waste city.

Meanwhile, the federal government makes up for a good chunk of the drop in state incomes by transfers or reduced taxes.

In November 2011 a chunk of ice, the size of an orange, broke through the roof of a private house in Ratingen Hösel, Germany.

But recent evidence suggests that large changes, caused by the absorption of a chunk of alien genetic material, may be just as significant.

The increase was perhaps exaggerated in the heat of the moment, but a good chunk of the money actually appears to have materialized.

Deah Barakat was a tall guy with a big smile and big ideas.

Looser US monetary policy has thus set the tempo for inflation in a significant chunk perhaps as much as 60 of the global economy.

NEW YORK Seventy years ago this month in Munich, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a document that allowed Germany to grab a large chunk of Czechoslovakia.

What a big dog!

We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big.

Some say that the miracle stemmed from an agricultural revolution that freed a large chunk of the labor force to make things rather than grow food.

Big companies. Big companies.

The state owned oil company, which accounts for a major chunk of government revenue, is hugely inefficient, and invests far too little in new equipment and technology.

Is that a big number?

Tom made a big mistake.

We have a big dog.

You have a big nose.

You have a big nose.

I have a big family.

It is a big dog.

Black was a big no.

SINGAPORE Not a week passes, it seems, without a big picture thinker releasing a big picture book or giving a big picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia.

The US economy may have lost a fair chunk of its mojo, but it will require a lot more bad luck and policy blunders to get to a second worldwide Great Depression.

Big Money Merges with Big Brother

When there is no big bubble, there is no need to worry about a big crisis.

Mass media could report few big stories in which a few big actors took center stage.

Big banks get a big taxpayer subsidy in the form of downside protection for their creditors.

Liabhan mor, suggesting a big animal.

Now that's a big abstract number.

That s a big thing in California.

A Big Chance for Small Farmers

It was a very big room.

Here's a big map of Germany.

I live in a big city.

You are making a big mistake.

He belongs to a big family.