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The upshot, when the team crunched the numbers, was that the variant form of DARC may be responsible for 11% of the African epidemic.

Evidently, these institutions aren't that sensitive to the needs of time-crunched parents, but maybe I'm not either on this point.

I crunched the numbers for an 800, 000-square-foot lot and told him how much power it could generate even if it was completely full of cars.

Data is optimized for the tablet, so as the company explains, a 3-megabyte image may be crunched into a 50-kilobyte file.

The Abbot's foot crunched on a broken shard. He picked it up and turned it over in his hands.

It's common knowledge that the software developer is often crunched for time.

For this to have a chance of happening, more numbers will have to be crunched, and planetary atmospheres analysed for signs of oxygen.

The team crunched huge amounts of data about user behaviour to see which areas needed to be improved and tweaked.

I don't know about you, hotel beds are uncomfortable. My back is always all crunched. -Crunched up, right. -Now you want to tighten it up.

As the two firms' investment banks were crunched together, over a third of those units' employees were either laid off or left for rivals.

A pair of Brazilian scientists has crunched the numbers and come up with an answer: $263 billion.

The children crunched through the snow .

Normally this was merely inconvenient, but twice I'd already begun to remove the disc, which then got crunched.

He crunched the sheets of paper in his hands.

Bob got credit crunched last week when the bank turned down his application.

He popped a roasted lark into his mouth and crunched it noisily, bones and all.

There was broken glass on the floor. It crunched under his feet.

That will be hard for credit-crunched voters to swallow after years of cheap energy.

I've just crunched the numbers and we're not going to be able to meet payroll next month because of cash flow problems.

THE BEATEN-UP RED car crunched up the driveway and came to a halt outside an English manor house.

To figure out where disease-prevention dollars would be best spent, the scientists crunched the numbers.

He crunched through the pine needles towards the tree's wide trunk - a serious face and a thumping heart.

Keep that image of a time-crunched personnel manager in your head.

The first is the speed with which the data are generated and crunched.

Instead of being soft and cuddly, it seemed to be filled with solid items that crunched against each other.

Officials are now working on a rescue package for CIT, a liquidity-crunched lender to small and middling companies.

Their breath made clouds of the chill air and their boots crunched on the congealed gravel of the motel parking lot.

With credit so cheap, those in need of it are less "crunched" .

We crunched the numbers and tried to predict the outcome of the world's most popular sporting event.

Times have changed, but our policies and programs haven't caught up, and moms are getting crunched.

They crunched over the snow into the silent village, bending forward against the mountain wind that swept through the street.

Every step crumbled up numbers of minute grey shells, empty and dry, that crunched under foot like hoar-frost or fragile beads.

The hit to construction spending, as much as the fall in exports, crunched China's GDP growth to a decade low of 6. 5%.

China surpassed Japan as the No. 2 economy. I would like to know how and who crunched the numbers. What Japan thinks about.

Having crunched the numbers, the Arsenal manager has pinpointed where his team has fallen short.

Their sturdy soles crunched over snow on Mount Rainier and timidly trod upon volcanic rocks in Costa Rica.

The detritus of the revolt crunched under my feet.

The wolf made no answer. Snow crunched beneath his paws.

His boots crunched through piles of old snow.

The frozen snow crunched under our feet.

The wheels crunched the gravel.

The snow crunched under our feet.

According to numbers crunched by Merrill Lynch, 70% of profits in the FTSE 100 this year will be made by resources companies.