for the greatest part
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They contain, for the greatest part, not more than ten to twenty huts of an extremely miserable appearance.
From The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery by Nicolas Notovitch
They were for the greatest part chosen from among their learned men, by their chief council, though some studied it of their own accord.
From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More
They could see them yelling and screaming at their games, though they could not hear them, and they yelled and screamed the louder to the eye because they were visibly for the greatest part boys.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
The hair, for the greatest part is straight, though in some frizzling; and though its natural colour be commonly black, it is stained, as at the Friendly and other islands.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
Now it is not well enough considered to what accidents and occasions the world is indebted for the greatest part of those noble writings which hourly start up to entertain it.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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