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1. He knew he had spent the vastly greater portion of the previous evening drinking with the eccentric man, as well as imbibing before and after they simultaneously gulped down full tankards
2. If he employed it as a farming stock, in the cultivation of land, he could raise the rate of his profit only by retaining a greater portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of a greater portion, of the produce of the land; and as this could be done only by a reduction of rent, the final payment of the tax would fall upon the landlord
3. My father once told me that a greater portion of those who climbed mountains for sport got killed doing it than any other activity that people voluntarily took part in
4. If we act now we can solidify our encampments in Mount Crow and take the greater portions of the Ghastly Fens and Mystic Down for the goblins and orcs
5. the greater portion that knows
6. This is only a small portion of the truth, recorded in chapter thirteen, the greater portion of the truth lies in the price of faith
7. The owners, those who have much to lose if all is shared, realize that to avert crisis some marginal redistribution must be extended to a greater portion of the world's population to provide more stability between the elite Z-owners and the Double N class: all those who suffer from the economics of profit
8. The other 85 percent of your brain, by far the greater portion, is
9. "Sir," he said, after a pause, "a thousand excuses for the precaution taken in your introduction hither; but as, during the greater portion of the year, this island is deserted, if the secret of this abode were discovered
10. Most traders, especially shorter-term traders for whom the spread represents a greater portion of their profit and loss, should think about executing at least one side of the trade on a limit order if possible
11. The street railways, another important medium of investment prior to 1914, rapidly lost the greater portion of their value as the result of the development of new transportation agencies
12. Stock B now accounts for a greater portion of the index than either Stock A or Stock C
13. This road was, and still is, a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving rains
14. For several months the tribe hovered near the beach where stood Tarzan's cabin, and his studies took up the greater portion of his time, but always when journeying through the forest he kept his rope in readiness, and many were the smaller animals that fell into the snare of the quick thrown noose
15. From this position a shrubbery hid the greater portion of Putney, but we could see the river below, a bubbly mass of red weed, and the low parts of Lambeth flooded and red
16. At last the greater portion of the French division, consisting of 12,000 men, surrendered, and all their artillery, 27 guns, baggage, etc
17. From morning till night these thousands of men, the greater portion of them starving and in rags, tramped angrily through the mud, venting their hatred in abusive epithets and acts of violence
18. The greater portion of them are extracted, with some modification, from an essay which I read about three years ago, to the Academy of Natural Sciences, without any intention at the time of giving publicity to them
19. The greater portion of this force is proceeding on its destination, towards the Michigan Territory, having succeeded in relieving an important frontier post, and in several incidental operations against hostile tribes of savages, rendered indispensable by the subserviency into which they had been seduced by the enemy; a seduction the more cruel, as it could not fail to impose a necessity of precautionary severities against those who yielded to it
20. By far the greater portion of workers in the field of Greek sculpture are concerned at the present time with the morphology of art for the sake of its history
