Stateside, compared with the Focus, the Chevy Cruze looks like a lump of arterial cholesterol.
But what if one needs a lump of cash now and the other doesn't?
Berenice was kneading a lump of biscuit dough, and she dropped it on the flour-dusted table.
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Our son turns 19 this week and is a strapping 6ft tall, 15-stone lump of muscle.
In fact, the paper he cited did not commit the lump of labour fallacy.
The one- and two-euro coins release more irritating ions than a lump of pure nickel would.
What was decades ago a lump of rock can be transformed into an economic ore by new technology.
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Charlie Naysmith found the 600g lump of ambergris in a patch of seaweed at Hengistbury Head in Bournemouth.
Since it resembles a huge lump of coal, the craters on its surface have been named after coalfields.
Instead, if everyone works a little less, the lump of labour can be sliced more evenly among the population.
There would be a big lump of money when you reached retirement age.
In any economy, the fallacy says, there is only a fixed amount of work (a lump of labour) to do.
It is much easier to assess the value of a bag of salt or a cow than a lump of metal.
Miners will march from the pit to a nearby cemetery where a lump of coal will be buried and two wreathes laid.
He said a lump of rock was used as an anchoring point.
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They spotted someone as a lump of masonry fell away, but the foot and hand we could see in the rubble were motionless.
For him, a statue of Zeus enthroned or Christ crucified would have been an impediment to belief, a mere lump of shaped matter.
The survey also raises the question of what long-term effects will result from children forming an emotional bond with a lump of plastic.
Buffett plans to begin dishing out the stock next July, starting with a lump of 1.2 million shares, slowly followed by the rest.
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At the bottom sat a lump of granite, the wet sand around it strewn with cigarette butts and ticket stubs from the wax museum.
Now more drinkers in France will get to try the real thing, best blended with water and a lump of sugar to create an eminently sippable cocktail.
Still, there is good news for people whose credit scores are about as appealing as a lump of coal in a stocking on Christmas morning.
If disaster strikes and a LFTR springs a leak, the spill cools to an inert lump of rock, chemically locking all the nuclear material inside.
Instead, out comes a synthetic gaseous fuel and a lump of shiny rock, not unlike volcanic glass, with toxins locked up inside in relative safety.
The police officers suffered mostly scrapes and bruises, although one female officer was hit in the knee with a lump of asphalt, the Reuters news agency reported.
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And the absence of heat coming from the interior means that the moon is an inert lump of rock, bereft of interesting geological processes such as vulcanism.
So now we want to time warp back 30 years to a system where all our data resides on a giant lump of iron in some distant data center?
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"Light coming toward us from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of a lump of matter in the middle, " explained Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh.
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