sizeable chunk

collocation in English

meaningsofsizeableandchunk

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sizeable
adjective
uk
/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/us
/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/
large:
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chunk
noun[C]
uk
/tʃʌŋk/us
/tʃʌŋk/
a roughly ...
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(Definition ofsizeableandchunkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Is thatsizeablechunkof taxpayers' money achieving added value for small business?
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With capital and reserves amounting to no more than £15 million, that represents asizeablechunkof the assets available to the successor company.
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Asizeablechunkgoes in the continued handouts that we give to the private sector, not least in terms of stock relief.
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That itself took quite asizeablechunkof space—10 pages, plus a couple of schedules, with more to come.
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It removes asizeablechunkof money from the control of the wife.
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I may not be the world's greatest speaker but 13 minutes is quite asizeablechunkto miss.
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If they had moved just 20 days later they would have saved £1,250 in stamp duty—asizeablechunkof their moving expenses of £5,500.
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That is all that he gets from running the business, and out of that he has to find £3,300, which is quite asizeablechunk.
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It is a significant,sizeablechunkof taxpayers' money.
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There is asizeablechunkof new hospital there.
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This is a prettysizeablechunkof land which we are discussing.
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But asizeablechunkof my life and the lives of a whole group of people, young men and women, have been spent working on the campaign for four years.
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This is by any standards asizeablechunkof public expenditure; and it is due to rise to £874 million, at 1972 survey prices, in 1976–77.
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