a good part of

idiom

: a large amount of
Babies spend a good part of the day sleeping.

Examples of a good part of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The President spoke at a podium flanked by a good part of his cabinet, including his attorney general and the defense minister—figures the parents distrusted. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 Light output is the biggest weakness of OLED, and that can be seen from the full-screen all-white field numbers, but being able to hit around 1,000 nits while still lighting up a good part of the screen is ideal for most HDR content. PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024 Maybe that would have been a good part of the book to change and expand on! Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Snow lovers may have been disappointed, but at least a good part of our region got a little bit of white stuff. A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024 Apparently this bird would spend a good part of the day sitting on the window ledge giving a loud cackling call typical of an agitated Cooper’s hawk. Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 For a good part of the twentieth century, the ethnicities of fiction writers served as literary labels. Joan Silber, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021 Now, more than 20 years later, a good part of it that area is permanently protected as the city of Carlsbad’s Lake Calavera Preserve and as the state’s Calavera Highlands Ecological Reserve. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023 Sign up for a free mountain tour to learn the ins and outs of the slopes, or try some night skiing before hitting the hay (a good part of the mountain is open for skiing several nights each week). Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023

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“A good part of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20good%20part%20of. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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