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 β Jul. 7, 2026
She is absent for the greater part of the novel but makes an entrance for its symbolic and complex finale, when the setting shifts to Israel in 1981.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 7, 2025
Years later, colonial official Sir Charles Eliot said Nairobi sat in "a depression with a very thin layer of soil or rock. The soil was water-logged during the greater part of the year".
From BBC β Apr. 29, 2024
Similarly, he declares that "forever preserving humanity as it is now may also squander our legacy, relinquishing the greater part of our potential."
From Salon β Nov. 20, 2022
Yet the greater part of the work of oxidation is performed in a theater far smaller, in tiny granules within the cell called mitochondria.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
