Sentence examples for chunk of total from inspiring English sources

The growth reflects the successful drive by corporations to squeeze out costs and improve productivity, and accounts for a substantial chunk of total demand in the economy.

But taking over a couple of the top-five U.S. banking companies would account for a big chunk of total system assets here.

"Residential water consumption accounts for a huge chunk of total water consumption," said Alex Wilson, editor of Environmental Building News, a newsletter published in Brattleboro, Vt ."And measures that homeowners take to conserve water are extremely important right now".

He added: 'Although the impact may be modest in London and the South-east, the cut will be felt disproportionately in the Labour heartlands of Scotland, Wales and the North of England.' Miras is worth more to home-owners outside the South-east because it represents a bigger chunk of total monthly repayments.

In smaller centres it often makes up a large chunk of total employment.Aside from the political and economic gains to the host countries, economists and investment bankers point to two wider benefits from having a range of financial centres around the world.

In the 1990s, when investors were earning 20% a year, fees seemed a trivial issue; but when cash is yielding 1-2% and government bonds 3-4%, take take a much bigger chunk of total return.Given their losses in 2008, clients may also be attracted to banks which they believe to have weathered the crisis better than others; Credit Suisse and JPMorgan are both reporting significant inflows.

Most of its members pull in substantial and growing chunks of total revenue from overseas sales.

NASA's $10 million to be awarded to Engineering over each of the next five years would equate to a considerable chunk of the total amount of grant funding from the DOJ for research.

But Saudi Arabia announced on April 21st that 17 new cases had been discovered that day alone, bringing the total to to 37 cases in three days, a good chunk of the total number of 261 cases in the kingdom over the past 18 months.

So many instituional investors now allocate a fixed chunk of their total holdings to venture.

In Florida, 1.3 million people have prior felony convictions, making this a very sizeable chunk of a total eligible electorate of 11 million.