for the greatest part
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In practice the feed is so sensitive that for the greatest part of the time the movement of the rod cannot be detected without some actual measurement.
From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin
Thus is it that you instruct your followers—kept awake for the greatest part of the p. 62night by debaucheries, and consuming in drowsiness all the most useful part of the day.
From The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Henry Morley
And by this uninteresting minuteness, his style, for the greatest part, is rendered inelegant.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
The historian writes, "Poland is indebted to Casimir for the greatest part of her churches, palaces, fortresses, and towns," adding that "he found Poland of wood and left her of marble."
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens
I sat up for the greatest part of several nights successively, and, before he suspected that his treatise was discovered, had completely mastered it.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
