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The pigs gobbled up the waste food as if they had not been fed for days.

The top isn't delicate enough to crack with a spoon, but the entire tart is good enough to be gobbled up in seconds.

It showed a caveman trying to use a pterodactyl for an express delivery, only to watch it be gobbled up on take-off by a tyrannosaur.

measured by the share of GDP gobbled up by the taxman, tax burdens have come down in most countries since the turn of the 21st century.

In all the chaos of a galactic pile-up, plenty of gas should get funneled toward the center and gobbled up, astronomers reasoned.

Before 1534, the Church may have owned a sixth of England and Wales; by the end of the decade, its estates had been gobbled up by the King.

The latest cause for concern: that the earth will be destroyed and the galaxy gobbled up by an ever-increasing black hole next week.

As he was still hungry, he gobbled up a second sandwich.

That has not been the case so far: between 1960 and 2005 the share of national income gobbled up by health more than tripled.

which have gobbled up 21% of domestic traffic since 2005 but have been kept out of many of the most profitable routes by the older airlines.

Lo and behold, during the night, the demons came in their true frightening forms and gobbled up all the weak defenseless beings.

We gobbled up the enemy.

Mrs. Sawyer looked radiant, too, and for the first time gobbled up her dinner like a little pig.

This causes systematic natural resources to be gobbled up gradually, computer moves slower and slower.

Mrs. Smith looked radiant, too, and for the first time gobbled up her dinner like a little pig.

There is a little boy in the front what has been gobbled up eats the fried chicken.

This galaxy was gobbled up by the Milky Way between six and nine billion years ago in an act of intergalactic cannibalism.

It seems fitting as we tick off the days that Zhu Wei's paintings are gobbled up by collectors faster than Sunday dim sum.

The heron gobbled up land crabs which, without the herons, had become a pest on the islands.

How can organisations profit from the power of the web rather than being gobbled up by it?

During the boom years, this system gobbled up credit from abroad, leading to yawning current-account deficits.

But instead, the crane suddenly killed him, gobbled up his flesh, and let the bones fall to the ground.

for his first meal after having his feeding tube removed , bob gobbled up hibiscus flowers and roses.

Google gobbled up Android Inc. in 2005, and announced the Android smartphone platform two years later.

Home was far away, a distant place that gobbled up whatever I sent back, ignorant and happy but touchingly hungry to know.

The nutrients in the rural areas get gobbled up, and the cities become the main food hubs.

Fish in each trial ultimately gobbled up the same numbers of prey.

"We've known that the ozone indoors is being gobbled up, " Charles Weschler told Science News.

The few airdrops of aid, delivered by American planes, were quickly gobbled up by Nationalist troops.

Small family businesses are often gobbled up by larger firms.

Stay tuned. Then, of course, there is the issue that gobbled up the 2007 sports year, performance-enhancing drug use.

If she lives in New York, I suspect her paycheck will be gobbled up by rent, groceries and the like.

It's in what once was a separate galaxy, which the Milky Way gobbled up billions of years ago.

And half of medical malpractice payments were gobbled up by lawyers and overheads.

In recent years they have gobbled up shares of clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.

It has gobbled up great chunks of market share in deposits and new lending in the past year.

Months of murderous interest payments gobbled up my savings.

And most of that time was gobbled up by work commitments, says Stats Canada.

She gobbled up all the relevant information.

Such credit as is available is gobbled up by state-run enterprises.

They have gobbled up opportunities in eastern Europe and Russia.

equity? Will Burger King be gobbled up by private equity?

At the picnic, her children gobbled up all we had on offer.

China gobbled up 37% of Australia's mineral exports in the past fiscal year, up from a mere 5% a decade earlier.

But by 2011 Chicago will have gobbled up nearly 75% of the proceeds from the 75-year lease.

At the same time, Asia's rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland.