Sentence examples for major slice from inspiring English sources

Buttler's innings contained one major slice of luck.

It also is shaping up to be a major slice of retail heaven.

His one major slice of luck here was a walk-over against Safin in the third round, the Russian having injured his left arm.

In developing countries like Egypt, where food accounts for a major slice of average income, such inflation is becoming a major problem.

Struggling Hovis is to get £200 million of investment under a deal that will hand a major slice of the operation to an American firm.

He has spoken out, for instance, at the glorification of Captain Sullenberger, explaining that while the pilot deserves the utmost respect, the water landing was a standard manoeuvre made possible by a major slice of luck – that the collision with a flock of geese took place right by "a 12-mile runway of smoothly flowing river, within swimming distance of the country's largest city".

Opponents say a major thoroughfare slicing through the state would destroy the very qualities of peacefulness, natural beauty and remoteness that make this region desirable in the first place.

So far nearly 6,000 pigs (updated, March 13th) have been retrieved from the waterway, which is a branch of Shanghai's Huangpu river, the major thoroughfare slicing through the city.

AGO1 is presented as a major antiviral slicer, but other AGO paralogs are likely involved, potentially also mediating translational repression [19] or DNA methylation in a sequence-specific manner [6].

There are several major highways that slice through the area from north to south -- the Turnpike, Route 1 and Route 206 -- but no good way to move between them.

That is, how much you're willing to pay for, as major airlines increasingly slice and dice those coach sections to entice business travelers with slightly more space — but at a much higher price.