Example sentences of "for the best part of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 2 | They had to hassle for the best part of the day to get the machine out of the factory because , like most of these auctions , the auctioneers wanted the place cleared immediately . |
| 3 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 4 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 5 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 6 | There are not many precedents for the same Secretary of State and the same Permanent Secretary serving together for the best part of six years . |
| 7 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 8 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 9 | He has operated on ‘ vibe ’ for the best part of a decade , stalking the watering holes of Dublin in search of the crack . |
| 10 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |
| 11 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
| 12 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |
| 13 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 14 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 15 | Although Common have been riding high on top of division one for the best part of the season , with luck they will not have forgotten their 3–0 home defeat by Alton Bass in October . |
| 16 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 17 | They emerged as a result of substantial research undertaken by a series of urban experiments operating for the best part of a decade . |
| 18 | Rotting in prison for the best part of his life , or a dishonourable death at the end of a rope . |
| 19 | So I will claim this to be the lowest speed of any commercial prerecorded ‘ two-minute ’ cylinder , which ran for the best part of four minutes now . |
| 20 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 21 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 22 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 23 | Indeed ‘ Must we fling this filth … ’ became the paper 's catchphrase for the best part of a decade . |
| 24 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 25 | The first sign of how bad things will get is when Daisy Chainsaw allow their crap squatmates — the worst performance artists in Britain — FACT ! — to flap around to clompingly useless New Beat for the best part of half an hour . |
| 26 | Although forewarned by the bombardment , the Germans had not temporarily withdrawn from the heights ; so the troops in their trenches were bombarded for the best part of a week and could receive no food or relief from the devastating artillery fire . |
| 27 | He was , in fact , for the best part of half a century the closest link between English artists and their French contemporaries . |
| 28 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 29 | Across the Atlantic , the Indian hockey team was in its pomp , winning the hockey tournament at the Los Angeles Olympics , and dominated hockey for the best part of the next 40 years . |
| 30 | The mystery of the missing Master Sergeant kept them all embarrassed for the best part of a year . |