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By mid-January, the show was largely given over to the President's having choked on a pretzel.

His group of computer scientists was largely given a free rein to pursue Squeak, which was a direct descendant of the Smalltalk programming language.

The area was settled in 1875 and was largely given over to ranching and timbering; the town served as a commercial centre.

His energy flagged noticeably, if understandably, during the last week, which was largely given over to an, alas, equivocal showcase for his Miami-based training orchestra, the New World Symphony.

Some anthropologists have proposed that alcohol production may have predated agriculture; in any case, it no doubt stimulated that development, because in many parts of the world the cereal harvest was largely given over to beer-making.

They streamed in and out of the house for conferences, and the phone was largely given over to long-distance counseling sessions on love or money, life or death — George quailed at nothing.

Since advertising barely existed in China, Stern later said he assumed he was largely giving his highlights away in exchange for exposure to the vast Chinese audience.

When Summers made the final presentation to the president's then-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Scheiber writes, "It reflected what he deemed the best course that was politically feasible... Yet because Emanuel and the president assumed Summers was largely giving them [economic advice], they believed they were closer to the ideal than they actually were".

The biggest, light-filled galleries are largely given over to outsized work.

Although the room is unusually narrow, one entire wall is largely given over to cabinets, most of which conceal bookcases.

That same top tier has been largely given over to VIP boxes, which are due to be sold to private business after the Olympics.