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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Big companies. Big companies.

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

Big Money Merges with Big Brother

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

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.

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

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

One hears this argument for many modern industries, from big food to big pharma to big finance.

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.

Being too big to fail simply means being too big.

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.

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 mistake.

Big Pearls

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.

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

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

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.

Bibi s Big Surprise

They're all big.

MA Pretty big.

It's too big.

It's very big.

Tom is big.

They're too big.

Big Brother Google?

Little Big Men

One Big Union

The Big Blink

Africa s Big Boom

That s big data.

Little Big Science.

But is this the main purpose of China s new Big Brother and Big Sister?

I m really concerned that too big to fail has become too big for trial.

These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.