How to Use in good/great/large part in a Sentence

in good/great/large part

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  • Berger believes that the audience’s strong emotional reaction to his film is due in great part to its silence, which allows its simple drawings to become symbols.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • That’s in good part because the sport isn’t just fun to say but fun to play.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 June 2023
  • Those tailwinds are, in good part, the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
    Henry R. Nau, National Review, 10 July 2022
  • That’s in good part because Herbert didn’t throw much his way.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2020
  • And that depends in great part on when a film is completed.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • There has never been a second act like this in sports, and that’s in good part because of Messi’s first act.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
  • East Texas was built in great part by enslaved people living in the massive, fertile region of the state.
    Rosalind Bentley, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • This was in great part because Linda doesn’t know what is going on with Monica right away.
    Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Buffalo will continue to play in good part thanks to Williams, who spiced his scoring with four steals and four assists.
    cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Joe Flacco, a very veteran veteran at 37, started for the Jets in good part because the Dolphins lead the league in blitzing.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The past two years have seen remarkable momentum and growth in the states for the school-choice movement, which in great part is a consequence of anger over the damaging shutdowns.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The French right has succeeded in winning the culture wars, in great part because the left has offered no alternative, Ms. Rousseau said.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Heiser said that Beachwood is weathering the pandemic better than 99 percent of the cities around it, in good part due to its healthy cash reserve.
    cleveland, 17 Nov. 2020
  • At the time, Taiwan was known for its reliable PPE, in great part because of its ramped up production and distribution of masks.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The company is in the black in great part thanks to Annapurna Interactive, co-founded by Gary.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But rumors and allegations of foul play, fueled in great part by the boat's captain, Dennis Davern, have never gone away.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Many are single and without families, and some 250 employees come into the office five days a week, in good part for social connections.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This was done in good part to purposely create controversy and outrage, in order to deter people from coming to the border.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Owing in good part to his efforts, the game had grown so popular that tusks from Ceylon—and, indeed, elephants more generally—were becoming scarce.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The highest suicide rates are seen among single men in their 40s and 50s, and experts suspect that this trend is caused in great part by loneliness and the social expectations that help create loneliness.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • And yet Congress is unmoved, in good part because the pro-gun lobby routinely outmuscles advocates of gun safety.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Chintz’s current ubiquity has been building for the last few years, thanks in great part to its placement smack dab in the middle of two recent design trends: granny chic (aka grandmillennial) and biophilia.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The facts of the war have been clouded from the start, heavily disputed by both sides, and occluded in great part by a communications blackout in Tigray, where the majority of the violence has taken place.
    Ann Neumann, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • The governor is favored to prevail in just under two weeks and beat the recall, owing in good part to Democrats’ overwhelming registration advantage over Republicans.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The Fed’s efforts to slow the economy in great part depend on the housing market slumping, both because that cools off demand for goods and services, and because housing itself is an important contributor to inflation.
    Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • European culture, which very much informs today's American culture to the nth degree, shifted focus to personal pursuits, enabled in good part by the industrial revolution and the rise of wealth.
    Allison Hope; Illustration By Leanza Abucayan, CNN, 31 Jan. 2021
  • More so than usual, in great part due to the combined effects of a tumultuous electoral process and pervasive economic stagflation that is extremely palpable to the population given triple-digit inflation.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • It’s driven in good part by anger and fear: about inflation, soaring gas prices, green energy, crime, homelessness, policy toward Israel, all of it undergirding a sense the country is headed irretrievably in the wrong direction.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But surely support for Ukraine from the war’s earliest days by formerly placid Europe is explainable in great part to its understanding that a successful Putin destruction of Ukraine’s national identity would set an ominous precedent.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Antimicrobial resistance is in great part due to the inappropriate prescribing or overprescribing of antibiotics, not to mention pathogens’ ceaseless evolution to escape treatment.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022

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