How to Use the great majority of in a Sentence
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For the great majority of my comic-book work, that one thing would be the publishers.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
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By day’s end Friday, the Israeli toll stood at more than 1,300, the great majority of them civilians.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Don't, because beyond a few superstars, the great majority of actors are in much the same spot as the rest of us.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 23 July 2023
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And the great majority of do it in a center in one of our clinics or other competitors that have clinics.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
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That would have torched everyone’s equity and for a lot of our employees that’s the great majority of their wealth.
—Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
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Round one last week was minimal, with the great majority of teams still in regular season mode.
—J.c. Carnahan, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
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Uniqlo makes up the great majority of the company’s sales, and investors appear optimistic about where the brand is headed.
—Marc Bain, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2021
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But the great majority of Americans are hungry for something more or better than Trump can offer.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
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But the great majority of Americans are hungry for something more or better than Trump can offer.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
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Banks are extending credit to consumers of both kinds, but less so to businesses, which fear that the great majority of their customers will be tightening their belts for years to come.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
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He can be relied upon to favor the interests of the city and state’s business leaders regardless of what might be best for the great majority of citizens.
—Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
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Contributors can leave it up to the United Nations where to direct the money, but donors earmark the great majority of it for specific programs and countries.
—New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
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Despite the debt problems, don’t expect the great majority of properties with expiring debt to wind up in foreclosure.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
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The single race-unknown minor who made the great majority of the HBCU threats could be a personal bigot, or could have had another motivation for making the calls.
—Wilfred Reilly, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
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For the great majority of human history, there was no doubt that women were to be understood as workers par excellance.
—Time, 20 Jan. 2023
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Utley had the great majority of his success with Philadelphia, and Kent with San Francisco.
—Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
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Their sources of intelligence repeatedly assured British leaders that the great majority of the colonists remained loyal to the mother country.
—T.h. Breen, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
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Although the latest omicron subvariant, BA.5, has fueled a wave of infections in many parts of the country over the past two months, the great majority of those cases have not required hospitalization.
—Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2022
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Replays over the weekend bumped up the linear total some, but as is usually the case with premium cablers in recent years, the great majority of P-Valley’s audience came via other means.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
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But across the Atlantic, the great majority of Mr. Trump’s tribe – federal indictment notwithstanding – seems uninclined to break ranks.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
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Overall, though, the great majority of Americans -- 83% according to the survey -- have still never ridden in, let alone driven, an electric vehicle.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 8 July 2022
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However, the great majority of this investment has overlooked a critical player: the doctor.
—Alexander Saint-Amand, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2022
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The work must continue, and study after study shows the great majority of corporates increase their reliance on contingent staff in recession to complete key projects on a contingent basis.
—Jon Younger, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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This institution couldn’t use trust to increase revenue – the great majority of reimbursements are paid by third-party insurance companies.
—Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
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In neuroscience, psychology and many other fields, the great majority of published empirical research uses them.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2015
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But those are exceptional cases, Tallamy maintains, and the great majority of insects accidentally introduced to North America are never heard from again.
—Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
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Why do the great majority of players who suffer repetitive concussions never develop the cognitive and psychological problems associated with CTE?
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2016
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Historically, Boeing was vertically integrated - the great majority of product development and manufacturing was done in-house.
—Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
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