large chunk

collocation in English

meaningsoflargeandchunk

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large
adjective
uk
/lɑːdʒ/us
/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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chunk
noun[C]
uk
/tʃʌŋk/us
/tʃʌŋk/
a roughly ...
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(Definition oflargeandchunkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Though published in 1958, alargechunkof the book is devoted to arguing that earthquakes are caused by movement on faults.
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The contexts, while possibly of infinite levels, each incorporates a ratherlargechunkof contextual knowledge.
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In addition to the politicians, administrators and educators from the states and cities slated to lose alargechunkof their revenue, the programme has other critics.
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However, his constituency is getting alargechunkof the capital programme that is being spent.
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Everyone knows that we lost alargechunkof our invisible export trade as a result of the last war.
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That will certainly be necessary because it will take alargechunkof those 10 years to get such schemes off the ground.
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A local authority has the power to do with alargechunkof the revenue support grant what it chooses to do with it.
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The company took alargechunkof public money to run nine schools.
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Now we are to compel men to serve an extra six months, taking alargechunkout of their lives.
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We spent alargechunkof our report questioning the machinery by which priorities are determined.
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That is alargechunkout of the resources available for other important matters.
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People do not want to go to look at alargechunkof dark green trees blotting out the whole of a strath.
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Nevertheless, it continues to receive quite alargechunkof money.
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I always regard her as alargechunkof reality.
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Whatever his previous experience in business, or trade unionism, five years is a verylargechunkout of a man's life.
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He confronted them with the world cake, with alargechunkmissing, and asked them to distribute the rest.
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Alargechunkof that money will go to men rather than to women.
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At the end of his working week, the wage earner will have to pay alargechunkof his income in tax.
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I represent alargechunkof the lake district.
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That is alargechunkof any weekly budget.
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