Sentence examples for owing most of from inspiring English sources

A family that financed the entire purchase of a $600,000 home in 2006 could now find itself still owing most of that mortgage, even though the home is now worth only $300,000.

It's still one of the best out there, with Boxee and Plex owing most of their success to the community-developed media center.

It owes most of all to the constancy of its founding family.

She owes most of her uniqueness to a single cause: her longevity on the throne.

Caves owe most of their beauty and much of their interest to these secondary growths.

The burgesses owed most of their privileges to their allegiance to the house of York.

Our "After the Ball" Nonesuch album owed most of its repertory to the Dover Books "Favorite Songs of the Nineties" compilation.

Mr. Zuckerman, whose fortune is estimated to be about $2 billion, owes most of his wealth to the real estate industry.

And we owe most of the great developments of the past century, from computing to our understanding of genetics, to work that originated in such military labs.

Like Mr. Castaneda, he owed most of his business, 95percentto thethe city law that sets aside about 18percentt of city contracts for companies owned by minorities and women.

Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences.