(1) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
(2) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(3) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(4) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(5) After it went public, Google bought key chunks of its business, including YouTube and ad firm DoubleClick.
(6) Saakashvili, a studio guest on CNN, said that it would be wrong to underestimate Ukraine’s military strength, adding that its officer corps was of a high calibre and that a “considerable chunk” of Russian officers were ethnically Ukrainian.
(7) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
(8) "That's 30 years in all, a large chunk of any scientist's professional life," says McKay.
(9) The Abu Dhabi royal family is tomorrow expected to lodge the highest bid for a chunk of prime Knightsbridge property.
(10) This article discusses two forms of case presentations--"traditional" and "chunked."
(11) 3.15am BST Heat 49-54 Spurs, :29 remaining, second quarter Oh hey, we actually have a solid chunk of time where there's no scoring.
(12) Google Now can work only if the company behind it manages to bring vast chunks of our existence – from communication to travel to reading – under its corporate umbrella.
(13) The whole point is that if wages rise, spending on tax credits – and other in-work benefits, like a significant chunk of housing benefit expenditure – will automatically fall.
(14) TalkSport showed there was life in AM yet after it took a chunk of the BBC's live Premier League rights and soared to a record audience.
(15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
(16) However, 6Music's average weekday audience, divided into half-hour chunks by official ratings body Rajar, peaks at 40,000 in the second half-hour of Lamb's morning show between 10.30am and 11am.
(17) Male nude mice were inoculated with either SKI or PGER by passage of tumor chunks (3 mm2) to the scapular region.
(18) The early evening chunk of Comic Relief 2009 - Funny for Money pulled in a 43% share of the overall audience over the three hours, peaking at 12.7 million in the quarter hour from 9pm, according to the unofficial overnights.
(19) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
(20) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
Gobbet
Definition:
(n.) A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
Example Sentences:
(1) September 6, 2013 8.19am BST One more gobbet of economic news -- UK house prices are rising at their fastest rate since 2010.
(2) Keystone laboratories came up with McNuggets, little gobbets of minced, reconstituted chicken, battered and breaded.
(3) The British National party chairman, Nick Griffin, seemed to agree, elegantly tweeting that the speech was "patently insecure bullshit"– as well as illustrating the elevated heights to which social media have taken political debate, when one or two impulsive lefties re-tweeted another of his gobbets, about the Labour leader acting as a "recruiting sergeant" for the BNP.
(4) In reply, he spat a gobbet of sickly racism inspired by the African spirit of the show.
(5) Updated at 2.49pm BST 2.38pm BST ECB buys no bonds, looks to OMT A small gobbet of news from the European Central Bank – it bought precisely zero government bonds last week via its SMP scheme.
(6) To conclude the tour she curls up on a sofa, tosses gobbets of popcorn into her mouth and relaxes with a film from Trump’s on-board cinémathèque of a thousand movies.
(7) Ultimately, if you're going to pebbledash your drama with walloping great gobbets of cartoon gore, it's probably best to make sure that it is, at the very least, scary.