Mr. Meddings said that was partly a result of timing, because cash flows from these investments aren't entirely predictable and come in lumps.
This problem explains why metal money has circulated not in lumps but as coins, with a regulated amount of metal in each coin.
Any money you convert in 2010 can be reported as income in two lumps in 2011 and 2012.
"They were more interested in kicking lumps out of us than scoring or keeping the score down, " he told BBC Sport.
The company's stock is languishing in part because Wall Street mistakenly lumps the company in with others in the soft semiconductor industry and in the wireless infrastructure business.
Do planets gradually grow around a rocky core, or can gas giants form spontaneously from lumps in the disc?
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Microsoft is getting their lumps in early by accusing Google of being naughty as regards their holiday shopping guidance.
Others may experience lumps in the breast caused by blocked milk ducts.
Meanwhile, the larger lumps in the belt have plenty to tell astronomers.
Having not particularly relished telling donors what they wanted to hear during the campaign, Romney has now taken his lumps in the thankless task of telling them what they want to hear afterward.
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In China, search engine behemoth Baidu (BIDU) is still a buy after taking some lumps late in the year.
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These include fibroids or "lumps" in the uterus, cancer, and heavy or irregular periods.
Both the lead singer of Coldplay and his actress wife take the lumps to stay in the limelight.
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If your business has lumpy revenues, you could arrange for the bigger lumps to occur in an opportune year, which would be any year not surfacing on an aid form.
The means by which sugar lumps arrived on tables in polite society were carefully hidden.
The company says surveys have revealed huge numbers of so-called nodules - small lumps of rock rich in valuable metals - lying on the ocean floor south of Hawaii and west of Mexico.
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In reefs, the structure is big lumps of calcium carbonate on which things grow and around which they graze and hunt.
Dr Nightingale told BBC News Online women would normally palpate, or check, their breasts with their fingers and would only be able to feel lumps that are typically around one centimetre in diameter.
"We took some lumps as gold declined, " he admitted in the letter.
Anyone who develops mouth ulcers or suspicious lesions and lumps, or sees red or white patches in their mouth or tongue which do not heal within two weeks, should make an immediate appointment with a dentist.
Instead, the team found, they tend to clump together in bigger clusters of molecules - and then as even bigger lumps composed of these clusters.
David Bartram head of highways and engineering at Derby City Council said the work had been vital after lumps of concrete up to 9in (22cm) in size had fallen from the Derwent Underpass in December.
The Congressional Budget Office, which lumps the payroll tax cut with extended jobless benefits in its analysis, has warned that eliminating both would cost the economy 0.7 percentage points of growth and 800, 000 jobs in 2013.
But when Brown spoke to some of these women individually, she realized that they had largely detected lumps by coincidence -- they happened to notice a change in their bodies -- rather than during a formal self-exam at a scheduled time of the month.
In the recent past, the Swiss government has been able to protect its banking laws while addressing concerns of countries like Germany and the U.K. by entering into new tax agreements that effectively curb tax evasion opportunities in Switzerland while maintaining client privacy (See UBS and Credit Suisse Will Take Lumps from Swiss-British Tax Agreement).
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Second step: They can sign a contract--symbolic, not binding--stipulating that, by a certain age (provided the business is not in financial distress) that they will move on and let the next generation take its lumps.
The first kind, the chunks, could be anything in size from dust grains, up through rocks and asteroids, to brown dwarfs (condensed lumps of gas not quite heavy enough to be stars).
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