21.  It occupies a bigger part in the athletic picture than it does in L.A., and the fans get a little more heated.

22.  New York Knick players fretted when he left, saying he was a much bigger part of the team than anyone imagined.

23.  Oddly, the cigar played a bigger part than most observers thought.

24.  One is that the service economy has become a bigger part of the whole, and gains in productivity are a lot harder to measure there.

25.  Retirement plans were becoming an ever bigger part of the business, and the people who chose the mutual funds to include in the plans valued stability above all.

26.  Sales taxes are inherently regressive, sopping up a bigger part of low incomes than of high ones.

27.  Remy said, though, that its other activities improved over the fiscal year, playing a bigger part in its distribution networks and earnings.

28.  So becoming a bigger part of the online revolution is not out of the question.

29.  South Africa would like to change that and make finished products a bigger part of its exports.

30.  Tax costs increased as offshore oil and gas activities accounted for a bigger part of operating profit, Norsk Hydro said in a statement.