Soon Donald Trump was buying up substantial slices of Manhattan on terms that were laughably favourable to the real estate developer, sorry, president-elect.
The two pizzas (grilled vegetables, mozzarella and tomato) with their crisp, paper-thin crusts yielded four small or six substantial slices, and the salads were almost comparable to entree-size ones served elsewhere.
But they turned off some moderates and independents, who are a substantial slice of the California electorate.
In particular, it is lobbying for a very substantial slice of New York's $54 billion request for federal aid, he said.
In other words, the air travel of a minority of regular flyers causes a substantial slice of UK emissions.
South Africa hopes to avert a similar crisis by setting up an orderly system to give blacks a more substantial slice of the economic pie.
A moreish mix of mushrooms, for umami depth, carrots, onions, cheese, oats and sesame seeds, they are grand and, for £1.95 (takeaway), you get a substantial slice.
In these countries a substantial slice of the public, not just the far right, feels vindicated by the deportation of thousands of jobless Romani squatters from Italy and France.
However, US sales of Bob the Builder merchandise fell 70% in the six months to January this year, which, combined with a weak dollar, took a substantial slice out of Hit's profits.
In return a substantial slice of her fellow countrymen are still prepared to invest respect, affection, even love in her to express uncomplicated patriotic feeling, much as they do when singing the radical William Blake's Jerusalem.
And in all these cases the official view — with which many commentators and a substantial slice of public opinion seemed to agree — was, essentially, that the artists and scholars had brought the trouble on themselves.
