Example sentences of "[conj] for the majority [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts know little about how people are coping , but research in the past couple of years shows that for the majority of India 's people the cooking energy crisis is already here . |
| 2 | We are also aware that for the majority of women , a visit to a car showroom or Service Department can be a difficult and sometimes downright unpleasant experience due to indifferent attitudes by some Sales/Service staff who are under the misguided impression that because you are female you know little or nothing about the motor car . |
| 3 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 4 | It is perhaps ironical that the differences between spoken and written language are typically much smaller for researchers working on language than for the majority of the population . |
| 5 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
| 6 | And for the majority of users , vector format clip-art has proved a quick and easy way to produce simple , bright graphics to enhance a form or letterhead . |
| 7 | Hopefully such ideas will spread to the rest of the community , but for the majority of this year 's school leavers it will be too late . |
| 8 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
| 9 | Those who work in the formal sector are partly protected by the continued existence of a minimum wage requirement , but for the majority of those in the informal sector or in peasant agriculture , there is no such security . |
| 10 | But for the majority of us there 's enough to get the best out of most effects in most playing situations . |
| 11 | However , as the WPGET ventures into a 13th season , it is pleasing to reflect that it has been lucky not just for some , but for the majority of women golfers , both amateur and professional . |
| 12 | But for the majority of teachers , the converse is true and changes in assessment are forcing changes in the curriculum . |
| 13 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 14 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 15 | But for Balbir , as for the majority of Asian girls who have turned to prostitution , they still think that it is too degrading for them to consider going out on to the streets . |