There were two pieces of cake.

Give me three pieces of chalk.

Give me three pieces of salmon.

I ate three pieces of cake.

Tom ate three pieces of cake.

Tom ate three pieces of pie.

Tom bought three bars of soap yesterday.

Tom ate two large slices of pizza.

And then we will make two more rectangular pieces.

We have to twist twenty four bubbles to make this piece.

A piece of bread was not enough to satisfy his hunger.

The train was derailed by a piece of iron on the track.

Maybe I can fix it with this piece of wire.

The wood for the fretboard usually differs from the wood in the rest of the neck.

They brought a small dish of rice and three pieces of bread for us all.

This of course, is more time consuming and increases the likelihood of the artist getting caught.

The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite, out of a lump of rock. It's made up of lots of little bits.

'What a terrible death!' said some gentleman as he passed them 'cut in half, I hear.'

Going after a little oil, a package of sausage, or a piece of soap to wash clothes.

Here's how close Haftlang recently underwent an operation to remove a piece of shrapnel that was still lodged in his throat.

Another graffiti artist can go over a piece in a matter of minutes with a simple throw up.

In his first post after being released, Khazali quoted the revered Imam Ja'far al Sadiq, saying A believer is stronger than Iron scrap and he can be killed, resurrected and killed again.

Richard Holton, a professor of philosophy at MIT and the author of Willing, Wanting, Waiting, points out that a resolution is an attempt to overcome the problem of maintaining an intention when we expect that, at some future time, we will face inclinations contrary to our intention.

Right now, we want to lose weight and we are rationally convinced that this is more important than the pleasure we will get from that extra slice of cake.

And nobody cares when miners in search of bread are evicted from their homes because almost everyone is in debt.

While they may be getting a smaller share of the pie than they did in the past, the pie is growing so much, thanks to the contributions of the rich and superrich, that the size of their slice is actually larger.

HAVANA A man riding the Chinese made Forever brand bicycle under the Caribbean sun after eating a single slice of bread, washed down with very bad coffee, finds it difficult to ponder America's trade embargo against Cuba.

And yet in two million years the human brain has nearly tripled in mass, going from the one and a quarter pound brain of our ancestor here, Habilis, to the almost three pound meatloaf that everybody here has between their ears.

Hierarchy is present in all social animals (including humans), I mean the ones that live in groups. Hierarchy is meant to decrease the intraspecific aggression. To keep two males from fighting over every piece of food or a female, nature came up with ranks.