'chunk' is a valid word and can be used in written English
It can be used to refer to a large, solid mass of something. For example, "The chunk of ice had to be melted down before it could be used for its intended purpose."
Instead, a hefty chunk of the increase in consumption in recent decades has been the result of higher housing prices, the rising cost of medical care, more spending on education, and childcare.
"There's a fear among them that this is a zero-sum game; that there's a pre-defined cake and if you start talking about men, you're going to somehow eat a chunk of this cake that's taken them a long time to bake".
Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.
But who now has the best chance to take a majority of that 18.3% slice of the voters, plus a goodly chunk of Le Pen's 11.5%, if they turn out to vote a second time?
The more senior submariner allegedly told McNeilly that the French vessel "took a massive chunk out of the front of HMS Vanguard" and grazed the side of the boat.
On the face of it, high-profile victims include Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, whose Sheffield seat takes in a chunk of Labour-held Penistone & Stocksbridge, and two of his potential successors: Vince Cable's Twickenham seat is split, as is party president Tim Farron's Cumbrian stronghold.
What is about to happen this summer is also without precedent, for the reopening of a sizeable chunk of the Waverley line – in the form of the Borders Railway, which will stop 30 miles south of Edinburgh at Tweedbank – is a first for the UK.
It's true that figure includes 92% of people who already plan to vote Labour, but a decent chunk of people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 – 57% – think Labour deserves a second chance.
LeSport in St Lucia is a good, all-inclusive choice with a huge amount going on, which you can take or leave (thebodyholiday.com) and a decent chunk of guests are alone.
Boyden and his colleagues used the method to perform super-resolution imaging of a 10 million cubic micrometer chunk of tissue from the mouse hippocampus, stained with antibodies against three different neuronal proteins, using a standard confocal fluorescence microscope.
But since the paid-for adverts are a large chunk of Twitter's revenue stream, it can't do too much to slow them down.
