kloc in English:

She spends a pretty good chunk of time just sitting there and looking out the window.

a chunk of cheese/meat

They lost quite a huge chunk of their motivation.

He cut out a chunk of meat.

So that's a chunk of what we are looking for.

I break my revision down into small chunks; it helps me remember things.

ice chunks

Huge chunks of masonry littered the street.

Can you chunk the cake?

I have a large chunk of money in the bank to buy a car.

You ate a chunk of my birthday cake

a large chunk of the nation's income

Notice and copy chunks of language

All of the students were looking at a little chunk of metal.

Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex.

Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time.

I need sun block.

Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.

From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.

I'll kill you! Knock your block off and grind you underfoot! You shithead! Die!

A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.

And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.

One hutong connects with another, siheyuans connect with other siheyuans to form a block, and blocks join with other blocks to form the whole city.

Just how well can masks block the, even smaller than pollen, yellow sand dust? I think it much more of a nuisance than pollen.

The manager blocked his suggestion because he didn’t like it.

This block of apartments is a building that takes both the environment and health into consideration. From now on we want to further expand this system and knowhow.

Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses.