greater part
Example Sentences
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She is absent for the greater part of the novel but makes an entrance for its symbolic and complex finale, when the setting shifts to Israel in 1981.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Years later, colonial official Sir Charles Eliot said Nairobi sat in "a depression with a very thin layer of soil or rock. The soil was water-logged during the greater part of the year".
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2024
Then there was the grueling trip to the new world, the colony’s collapse and, now, a solo journey that makes up the greater part of this story.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023
The couple have been sleeping there under a fan for the greater part of the week, as temperatures in the main part of the house reached 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022
The greater part of those accounts were idle tales and could not be relied on, and the books that Illyrio had provided them were not the ones he might have wished for.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
