lion's share
Example Sentences
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The website made about £3.2m in cryptocurrency Bitcoin, with the "lions share" ending up with Fletcher, prosecutor John Ojakovoh said.
From BBC • May 19, 2023
You should be more concerned with attending to the breach and repairing damage than concentrating the lions share of the effort on tracking down who did it first.
From Forbes • Dec. 31, 2014
King’s got the lions share of first-place votes, but defending champ Lakewood and rebounding Archbishop Murphy are in the hunt.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2014
Last month, Commerzbank said it planned to raise 8.25 billion euros as part of a two-step process to repay the lions share of 16.2 billion euros in state aid by June.
From Reuters • May 2, 2011
Even though it seemed that the London Company was getting the lions share, these prices proved to be very profitable for the colonists and the infant tobacco industry increased very rapidly.
From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by Herndon, G. Melvin
