Example sentences of "for the [adj -er] part [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR THE better part of two decades , Duke Kahanamoku was the best swimmer in the world . |
| 2 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
| 3 | ‘ But we do n't have many holiday houses lying empty for the better part of the year , ’ said one local , proudly . |
| 4 | Herrmann , a Wharton MBA who has been with Solbourne for the better part of a year , has a components background , having previously run Amphenol in Hong Kong . |
| 5 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 6 | The downward spiral in their relationship was observed by the poet Alan Ross , who lodged in the boiler room at 37 Hamilton Terrace for the better part of a year . |
| 7 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 8 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 9 | The ILN commenced publication in 1842 and for the better part of the 19th and early years of the 20th century enjoyed enormous popularity because it was able regularly to reproduce illustrations when the newspapers could not . |
| 10 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 11 | In May 1227 he granted such a charter for the greater part of Berkshire , and in June 1228 for most of the forest in Gloucestershire east of the Severn ; in October 1229 for Ombersley and Horewell in Worcestershire ; and in April 1230 for Kesteven in Lincolnshire . |
| 12 | The dog is with his owner for the greater part of the weekend and , through the week , the dog is road walked to produce fitness and show condition , so the ordinary show dog , apart from receiving the care and love of his owner , receives exercise and mental stimulus and is bonded with his owner by a common purpose . |
| 13 | You will now appreciate the load I have carried for the greater part of my life . |
| 14 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |
| 15 | Earthquakes can now be reliably predicted , for the greater part of Greece . |
| 16 | The person whose stammer is caused through lack of confidence or chronic anxiety is breathing this way for the greater part of the time . |
| 17 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 18 | For the greater part of this period it was controlled by Kim Ku , a conservative nationalist vehemently opposed to the Japanese occupation of his country . |
| 19 | This desolate landscape has been that of much of the earth for the greater part of its history . |
| 20 | Probably this accounts for the greater part of the increase in sede vacante presentations made by the king , but he and his clerks pushed their claims to the limit . |
| 21 | In reporting his death the annual report of 1957 states : " It would not be an exaggeration to say that his shoulders carried the burden of the BDDA income for the greater part of that period . " |
| 22 | He was employed by the Irishmen for the greater part of his working life : |
| 23 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 24 | Bone china tableware accounts for the greater part of output at the Wedgwood factory , where about one hundred designs are currently used in the production of this distinctively English ceramic ware . |
| 25 | This belief underpinned Russian policy towards Turkey for the greater part of the reign . |
| 26 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 27 | The publication of land registers for the greater part of the country represents a major opportunity to secure the better use of massive acreages of underused land . |
| 28 | Thirdly , normal classroom activities will provide the evidence for the greater part of assessment . |
| 29 | A company is employee controlled if more than half its issued ordinary share capital and voting power is beneficially owned by full-time employees , namely individuals who work for the greater part of their time as employees or directors of the company or its 51% subsidiaries . |
| 30 | Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship . |