Sentence examples for better part of one from inspiring English sources

The crew spent the better part of one afternoon camped out on Central Park West at 77th Street, waiting for Snowbell the Cat (whose finicky voice will again be provided by Nathan Lane) to find his motivation.

Staring at the conveyer belt of faces provided by a moving staircase while tripping on acid could easily occupy the better part of one's day.

It took only the better part of one afternoon.

Were New York City and Nassau to join Suffolk in passing these laws, the better part of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country would be protected.

When I was a mean and rotten kid, I was sure that people on the bottom of the world lived their lives standing upside down, and for the better part of one day in June I lay in bed with my head hanging over the edge and the blood rushing to my scalp as Mother came in the door upside down, the dog walked on the ceiling and flowers and water miraculously stayed in their vases.

However, he is not without guilt at having pulled Sam into a "pathological condition": that of spending the better part of one's free time hoping against hope for the Red Sox to buck eight decades of tradition and finally win.

"Is he going to be able to focus on the less fortunate which is the better part of America?" wondered one woman after viewing the ads.

She co-founded Ellevest, a digital investment platform for women, after serving, for the better part of three decades, as one of the most powerful executives on Wall Street.

For the better part of a decade, no one could do business with Ted Williams without going through his son, John Henry.

The Second Avenue subway, for instance, has had several groundbreakings over the better part of a century, including one in recent weeks, and bits and pieces of tunnel, built and abandoned, were long the equivalent of unused wine cellars.

This broader category, covering the better part of Lebanon's roughly one million Shiites, includes reservists, who will fight if needed; doctors and engineers, who contribute their skills; and mere sympathizers.