for the greatest part
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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 Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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 Notovitch, Nicolas
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 Camões, Luís de
The decrease in the number of prison inmates can also for the greatest part be attributed to the pardons granted.
From The Future Belongs to the People by Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich
We saw at Sévre a most splendid collection of china, for the greatest part ornamental.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
