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Most stacked-chip flash products involve just two chips, though some producers make stacks up to five or six chips tall.
On the Ukrainian side, old men and women worked on small plots, raking hay into stacks.
Second, the Greek bailout was also a bailout of German – and French – banks, who had stacks of Greek bonds in their vaults, and of German investors, who held and hold all sorts of "financial products" in which high-yield (because risky) Greek, Irish, and Portuguese bonds play a large role.
Each block had eight vertical soil stacks to take waste from toilets, basins and baths, but too little water was passing through to flush it all away.
The modern world record, then, is an entirely self-generated phenomenon: it exists only to be witnessed and recorded, and its specific content matters far less than its general status as a record - hence the growth of bizarre record attempts such as eating jelly with chopsticks against the clock, assembling giant stacks of poppadoms or building the world's largest chocolate igloo.
"In Manchester, people didn't want to take pictures with the DJs, but with the stacks ," explains 2ManyDJs' David Dewaele in an interview with Wired Magazine.
In fact, Eurosceptics have already expressed concern over the suggested terminology, with Ukip sources telling Breitbart London that it stacks the odds in favour of the pro-EU camp.
Only a few men sit in chairs, and leaf through stacks of glossy election pamphlets.
In this case the man's family found a pile of post three-feet high that included scam letters from Belgium, France, Ireland and Switzerland, along with stacks of items including 100 bars of soap, 153 tubes of shower gel and more than 50 false teeth holders and toothbrushes.
He picks goods off the shelves – capsules, toothpastes, body creams – and stacks them on the counter as he explains what they do.
At the end of that exchange of information, you will know better if she still stacks up as a good business partner and/ or girlfriend.
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The primary grammatical function of "stacks" is as a plural noun , referring to multiple instances of a stack. It can also function as the third-person singular present tense form of the verb "stack". Ludwig provides examples of both usages.
Expression frequency: Very common
