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

And while seven-times event winner Woods and local boy Phil Mickelson will no doubt take the lions share of crowd support, world number five Rose and number eight Day are ready to spoil the party.

From Reuters • Feb. 4, 2015

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

The Shogunate was clever enough to have the lions share of the landed possessions, which included the best parts of the country, generally comprising prosperous towns, as, for instance, the city of Osaka.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho