Example sentences of "spend the greater " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the greater part of my first twenty-one years , sleeping in the first floor back , a room somewhat smaller than my mother and father 's . |
| 2 | She spent the greater part of her working life trying to understand people 's needs , but the need for a God who would comfort and console and right wrongs — in the next life if not in this — although she might understand it , was something she could not uphold . |
| 3 | Yet in 1800 a Gloucestershire JP reckoned that he spent the greater part of his mornings dealing with Poor Law disputes . |
| 4 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 5 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 6 | He too was small , and inclined to be timid , and Hazel and Fiver had spent the greater part of their last evening in the warren in persuading him to join them . |
| 7 | Polybius had spent the greater part of his time explaining to Greeks and Romans why the Romans were bound to win . |
| 8 | And I always spend the greater part of the first session explaining just what is going to happen and how he is going to feel ; as a result I hope that , by the time we begin the hypnosis itself , the patient will have had all his questions answered and his fears allayed , and will have begun to feel confidence in me and what I am about to do . |
| 9 | All of these species have vivid coloration , spend the greater part of the day on view and act as excellent scavengers . |