for the greatest part
Example Sentences
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My grief at having lost an excellent horse which I had ridden for the greatest part of the journey, was increased by now knowing that one mile more travelling would have saved him to me.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
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
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
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
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
