(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.
Nugget
Definition:
(n.) A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallinari will miss the entire 2013-14 Nuggets season, unlike most Nuggets fans who, at its end, probably won't miss it all.
(2) Playing with what one imagines to be a huge chip on his shoulder, Aldridge put up a career-high 44 points, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nuggets 110-105 .
(3) 'Park' and 'Nugget' Kentucky bluegrass turfs were grown in controlled environment chambers and inoculated with Klebsiella pneumoniae (W-2, W-6, and W-14), Erwinia herbicola (W-8), and Enterobacter cloacae (W-11).
(4) Andersen, who has a 'mohawk' hairstyle and a past which includes a drugs ban, joined the Miami Heat after leaving the Nuggets.
(5) Last year, when Andersen was playing for the Denver Nuggets , the Colorado Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children team seized property from Andersen's home, leading to widespread speculation.
(6) We'll be here until then and beyond, sharing every rumour nugget, insightful news line and weighty analysis we can muster.
(7) You may lose a life in a game when you make a mistake, but good games brilliantly balance the inconvenience of this with the provision of power-ups and health packs – little nuggets of grace in the learning system.
(8) Among those might be the Denver Nuggets, who had to play the Trail Blazers a few hours after the NBA All-Star announcements.
(9) This was no abstract essay, but a speech written in concrete, packed with what the wonks call "crunchy" nuggets of policy.
(10) There is one family group sharing a tray of chicken nuggets - a Thai mother and father with a fat little boy bursting from a designer leather jacket, but the other patrons are all alone, disconnected, eating their fast food with silent efficiency.
(11) Why doesn't it just flood out when it is turned into a takeaway or a ready meal or a chicken nugget?
(12) The story was swiftly denied, but many observers felt there might be a nugget of truth in it, underlining how febrile the mood had become.
(13) Grampian, supplier of fresh chicken and nuggets to all the main British supermarkets, has just closed down a factory in Scotland and ended its contract with some of its British farmers, while buying two huge factories outside Bangkok.
(14) The survey is good fun, discarding old chestnuts such as washing-up and dusting in favour of fresher nuggets such as: who organises playdates?
(15) Pools of ticks, Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae collected between 1975 and 1979 at Macquarie Island, yielded 33 strains of at least 4 different viruses: Nugget virus (Kemerovo group), 1 strain; Taggert virus (Sakhalin group) 9 strains; a previously undescribed flavivirus, related to Central European Tickborne encephalitis virus, for which the name "Gadgets Gully" is proposed, 9 strains; a virus serologically related to the Uukuniemi serogroup, family Bunyaviridae, for which the name "Precarious Point" is proposed, 10 strains.
(16) And as long as that audience is there to be fought for, then, yes, Jonathan Ross will be paid gold nuggets per second.
(17) McDonald’s posted relatively healthy returns in the third quarter, egged on by the continued popularity of its all-day breakfast and new chicken nuggets without added preservatives.
(18) The Miami Heat didn't see their streak end in a blowout loss, which is more than the Denver Nuggets can say after their comparably modest 15-game win streak ended in a blowout loss to New Orleans.
(19) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(20) Served in school dining halls, fast-food outlets, at hospital bedsides, and on the tables of harassed parents, nuggets have become ubiquitous.