Sentence examples for large chunk out of from inspiring English sources

Andrew Engel Eugene, Ore., June 20 , 2008• To the Editor:... and there goes another large chunk out of the "power of the people".

He cut a large chunk out of Jerry's dying speech in "The Zoo Story" some thirty years after he wrote the play, for instance, feeling that a man discoursing for several pages with a knife in his chest was too operatic for his taste at that point.

With promises, by all parties, to increase spending on the NHS, and pay and manpower taking a large part of the defence budget, and with two large aircraft carriers, and, later, a new fleet of Trident nuclear missile submarines, biting a large chunk out of the budget, the army is in the firing line.

The hope is that, in addition to blasting a large chunk out of the object, the explosion would nudge the asteroid off a collision course with Earth.

Last Saturday, Morro Strand State Beach was closed for several days after a great white shark bit a large chunk out of a woman's surfboard.

Most dips in the Dow affect middle America, but this time the lows on the graphs have taken a large chunk out of some of this country's wealthiest who call the Upper East their home.

Such surprises can take large chunks out of a company's market cap in a flash.

As Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe told the BBC, he and other elite swimmers like Michael Phelps took large chunks out of their personal best times in their youth.

"These two teams battle really hard, but they can do nothing about the weather which is taking large chunks out of the game".

So service workers' bills will take an ever larger chunk out of your wallet and your motivation for avoiding them will grow.

Although East Coast investors are much more likely to invest outside of their region than their West Coast counterparts, it's only because a relatively large chunk of their out-of-region investments are on the Pacific coast.