Sentence examples for devoted the better from inspiring English sources

I devoted the better part of a few weeks just to reading Caro.

They devoted the better part of a year to their entries and spent $10,000 to $3.5 million.

Though Mr. Ishii is a busy man, he devoted the better part of an afternoon to giving us a course in soybean history and gastronomy.

The "Today" program, on NBC, devoted the better part of a half-hour to the incident, during which David Gregory, who covers Mr. Bush, told of "utter chaos" in the campaign when the news broke.

Riefenstahl devoted the better part of her last two decades to fortifying her legend and to suing her detractors (though not only them: she tried to disinherit her only living relatives, a niece and a nephew, with a spurious will that laid claim to her brother's estate).

In fact, he devoted the better part of seven issues of The New Yorker to Capote's nonfiction: two issues to "The Muses Are Heard" in 1956, one issue to "The Duke in His Domain" in 1957, and four issues to "In Cold Blood" in 1965.

The annual report may not have made room for conventional financial statements, but it did devote the better part of a page to its "QQQ" product, tracking shares on the Nasdaq 100 index.

But at the same time Mr. Kaplan writes with genuine sympathy for the singer and a deep appreciation of his musicianship, and unlike gossipy earlier biographers like Kitty Kelley and Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, he devotes the better part of his book to an explication of Sinatra's art: the real reason readers care about him in the first place.

I know the temptation: when I am interviewing someone onstage, as I still often do, it's so much easier and more fun to spend 20 minutes on Google than to wrestle with those ancient microfiche machines in the public library, let alone devote the better part of a month to reading all her books.

This is exactly what you're supposed to do when you come into a lot of cash: Wake up at 5 PM, assemble a uniform of leftover party scraps, and devote the better part of the day to figuring out who "that chick with the weird eyes" was from last night.

Regions differ markedly in their method mix profiles and preferences, raising the question of whether programmatic resources are best devoted to better provision of the well-accepted methods or to deploying neglected or new ones, or to a combination of both approaches.