greater part
Example Sentences
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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions,” she later noted, “and not upon our circumstances.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
As this debt becomes a greater part of bond markets—and funds that track them—investors seeking a broad mix of market exposure will have to make sure they are really diversified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
Captain Ben Stokes has pointed out his team are at a disadvantage because pace bowlers, with their longer run-ups, bowl more overs in the UK than other countries where spin plays a greater part.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
They've been issuing the same warnings for the the greater part of the last decade now, as each year seems to promise even more danger than the last.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2025
For the greater part of an hour Desdemona had been trying to ignore her foreboding by working in the cocoonery.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
