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

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).

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.

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.

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

In 1971, a chunk of ice from an aircraft tore a large hole in the roof of the Essex Street Chapel in Kensington, London, and was one trigger for the demolition of the building.

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.

Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether healthcare pressures will ultimately cause the current trend towards free (and freer) market capitalism to reverse, with a very large chunk of the economy reverting to a more socialist system.

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

A large chunk of the Republican base, including many of the party s largest donors, believes that any Democratic president is an illegitimate enemy of America, so that whatever such an incumbent proposes must be wrong and thus should be thwarted.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

All the unresolved conflicts of Europe were on that chunk of painted concrete a neo Nazi swastika, surrealistic faces of Europe s dead from war and Holocaust and secret police purges.

The true problem for France is the huge chunk of state owned companies that go through the motions without being particularly successful in the market.

If we could eventually colonize a chunk of the universe the Virgo supercluster maybe it will take us 100 million years to get there, but if we go extinct we never will.

And the camels come down again like elevators, we sort of clumsily get off, and they obviously try to take another chunk out of my leg.

Creating controllers via artificial evolution requires a large number of evaluations of a large population.

This is a large advantage when dealing with large amounts of data.

Well, in part, because health care in the developed world, the health care costs in the developed world, are rapidly spiraling out of control, and a huge chunk of those costs are human resource costs.

WASHINGTON In most advanced democracies, a large center right party competes with a large center left party.

It features Carey in a large cathedral, where she meditates and sings by a large carved window.

So many large animals would have supported a large population of predators as well.

John inherited a large fortune.

China is a large country.

He caught a large trout.

First, once we look outside transfers within the financial sector, the total global effects of this chunk of finance is a gain of perhaps 340 billion in increased real shareholder value from higher expected future profits.

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And she's got a very large house.

He has a large family to support.

Furnishing a new apartment requires large expenses.

NASA itself is a typical large organization.

However, there is a large financing gap.

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