Sentence examples for for the good part of from inspiring English sources
While Bird said little and kept his hands in his pockets on key possessions down the stretch, Pitino knelt down, cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted instructions incessantly for the good part of 48 minutes.
"It takes a while for the good part of a judge to conquer the powerful human instinct to make a decision in accord with his or her political preferences," he said.
Having taken notice of 2013's so-called Everest brawl, and having worked on projects on the mountain for the good part of a decade, the film-maker says she could sense things reaching a tipping point and felt a strong urge to be there.
Manger tells me that he and other colleagues (Cem Sertoglu, Evren Ucok, and Dan Lupu are the other three partners managing this fund) have been scoping out Turkey and the other countries for the good part of one-and-a-half years as they prepare to invest.
I don't think he saw his family for the good part of a year.
… As far as time travel into the future is concerned, it is well understood in physics — and has been for the good part of a century — that it is not only possible but also, indeed, rather commonplace.
He says he doesn't have a problem with her claiming to have experience - just with taking credit for the good parts of Bill Clinton's presidency while denying involvement in the bad.
The crazy thing is, this might all be good news, because more lunatic border enforcement has always been the condition demanded by Republicans for allowing the good parts of the bill – legalization of millions of undocumented immigrants – to proceed.
Cooked books, disdain for the E.U. rules, contempt for the truth — for a good part of a decade, the result was, Mr. Jouyet told me two years ago, "countries felt there were no rules.
