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
They've been issuing the same warnings for the the greater part of the last decade now, as each year seems to promise even more danger than the last.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 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
He regretted that climate change and its impact on Pakistan are not a greater part of public and political discourse.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024
They spent the greater part of the day closeted in the bedroom in hermetic conferences and at dusk they asked for an escort and some accordion players and took over Catarino’s store.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
