Sentence examples for majority of sentences from inspiring English sources

It is more expensive to incarcerate a person in Germany—roughly 120 euros ($135) a day per prisoner, according to Meinen, as opposed to an average of about $85 in the US but with far fewer prisoners (the vast majority of sentences are two years or less), there are more resources to train officers extensively in psychology and hire therapists to work with the men and women who do go to prison.

This not only provides the correct segmentation for the vast majority of sentences, but also has the advantage that the most likely syntactic roles of the words are given, which makes it possible to additionally calculate PoS-dependent frequencies.

Although these sentences are grammatically correct, they violate a strong "agent-first" bias in English (and many other languages), in which the performer of an action is mentioned first in the vast majority of sentences.

The majority of sentences are declarative - any sentence that states a fact, explains an idea, or describes an idea, for instance, is declarative.

In the federal system alone, which handles a small minority of criminal cases, the "vast majority" of 270,000 sentences in the last four years may be affected, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in her dissent.

I've somehow managed to become both sunken and paunchy, the vast majority of my sentences now begin with the word "Nyuhh" and it takes a superhuman level of effort to pay attention to anything, which is why I just had to take a 15-minute break from this sentence to look at photos of watermelons on the internet.

He added: "The government made it clear to us that if we agreed to plead guilty, they would recommend that we got sent home under the prisoner transfer treaty so that we could spend a good proportion, if not a majority, of our sentences in the UK where would could be close to our wives and families.

The vast majority of death sentences for crimes other than homicide in Saudi Arabia are for drug-related charges, including drug possession, according to Amnesty.

The majority of prison sentences were for less than 2 years and most participants had a long history, from a young age, of enmeshment in the criminal justice system.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is infamous for rejecting the vast majority of death-sentence appeals in the state.

Rideau spent the majority of his sentence in Angola State Penitentiary (also known as the Farm), where he started writing a column about prison life called The Jungle.