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词汇 example_english_big-chunk
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big chunk

collocation in English

meanings of bigand chunk


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big
adjective
uk /bɪɡ/ us /bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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chunk
noun[C]
uk /tʃʌŋk/ us /tʃʌŋk/
a roughly ...
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Examples of big chunk


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That is a bigchunk of time.
He has taken a bigchunk this year and reduced the tax.
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A fee of £1.50 is a bigchunk from one's benefit if one is obliged to use that system to draw out money.
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This country has some of the most reputable bookmaking systems in the world and could receive a bigchunk of overseas business.
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I was simply asking how much money was available for a very bigchunk of our rail industry in the next three years.
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That is a bigchunk—from 92,000 to 72,000.
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However, a bigchunk of that integrated transport policy related to motorcycling.
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Another bigchunk is because of the indefensible system which pays almost 1·5 million working people to be in dole queues.
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Her husband worked digging coal for 46 years for that money, and a bigchunk of it will go to pay funeral expenses.
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Seventh, if a bigchunk of the airline's £1 billion debt is to be written off with taxpayers' money, will other industries and other airlines not have legitimate complaint?
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She awoke to find a bigchunk out of a loaf for bread in his kitchen.
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Warning area 107, when active, takes a bigchunk of the sector's airspace, thus adding to its complexity.
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Is there any bigchunk of ice anywhere near there?
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A bigchunk of these bands shared the same ideology of refusing to be exploited.
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The problem was that they had to go halfway around the world to benefit from their success, and travel expenses ate a bigchunk out of their profits.
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There were big chunks of bread and butter, and mess plates piled high with meat and potatoes.
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These are pretty big chunks, but they leave an enormous area of other activities, particularly in an open, voluntary, democratic society.
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Big chunks of land no longer become available for housing development — it comes in bits.
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The worst thing that we can do is to send them signals that we intend to engage wholesale in the privatisation of big chunks of our public sector.
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