for the greatest part

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Hence it comes that their roots, for the greatest part, are seen naked, entangled among the rocks like the branching of ivy against our walls.

From The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by Williams, George Alfred

He suffered for the greatest part of his life from a distressing and disabling chronic asthma—from the time that he came back to Oxford as Fellow and Tutor—and he died in 1865.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

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

Peter himself worked for the greatest part of every day among the other workmen, wearing also the same dress that they wore.

From Peter the Great by Abbott, Jacob

He must be knowing in History, and be able to give a reason for the greatest part of the Ornaments of25 Architecture which are founded upon History.

From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Perrault, Claude