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.

The amounts mentioned are generally sizeable.

They have resisted sizeable internal pressures.

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

BP has to take its sizeable share of the blame.

A sizeable common budget for the provision of public goods.

These units have sizeable business recorded in the Atlas system.

Moreover, sizeable segments of the Muslim community are upwardly mobile in socioeconomic terms.

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

Immigration has brought Islam (4.9 ) and Eastern Orthodoxy (around 2 ) as sizeable minority religions.

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

Well, it has not worked so far, and the already sizeable stakes just got bigger.

In the past, the Panel considered the site to be a sizeable class B operation.

For a few years, imports surged, and by 1995 a sizeable current account deficit had developed.

Instead of driblets of relief, a sizeable package, composed of two elements, is the way forward.

Likewise, the Republicans elected several conservative senators and a sizeable number of more conservative House members.

The lake has sizeable waves driven by the easterly winds blowing west to the Pacific Ocean.

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

A sizeable portion of foreign residents in Spain also comes from other Western and Central European countries.

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.

Critics accuse Thaksin of conflicts of interest, as his family owned telecommunications conglomerate holds sizeable investments in Myanmar.

The sizeable investments required to make up for the loss of nuclear energy may contribute more immediate stimulus.

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

The downturn was a distinctive balance sheet recession that caused sizeable declines in household wealth and necessitated painful deleveraging.

In all four countries, there has been a sizeable upward trend in government outlays as a share of GDP

95.8 of the population are Finnish citizens, and the most sizeable minorities are from Russia, Estonia, Iraq, and Iran.

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.

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It was thus a sizeable city by any standards and much larger than the Roman towns of Gaul or Britannia.

Thus we invite the donor community to provide sizeable financial support to activities related to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes.

We also took note of several encouraging developments in that continent, allowing the voluntary repatriation of sizeable numbers of refugees.

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.

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.

Though a majority of the population is Middle Eastern, a sizeable number of people from South Asia live in the country.

To ensure control of his administration, he relies on a sizeable militia, a military commander and a deputy to assist him.

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.

In the east, there was a strong sense of being Bengali, and a sizeable Hindu minority continued to live in the province.

A sizeable proportion of these security incidents have been carried out by SLA elements the balance are attributable to bandits or militias.

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.