How to Use the best/better/greater part of in a Sentence

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• For LaMarr, the best part of The Groundlings is the camaraderie.
  — Anne Easton, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• That in itself may be the best part of the deal right now.
  — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
• Frankly, the Celtics have been running the East for the better part of the past decade.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
• For the better part of the next two decades, Padalecki would emerge as the face of The CW.
  — Max Gao, Variety, 27 June 2024
• The Knicks have spent the greater part of the last three decades just trying to get back to this point.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• The Kralj home, where the greater part of the action takes place, is stunning.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 17 Aug. 2024
• BeatKing has been the best part of the club for over a decade.
  — Asia Moore, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• For the better part of two months, the press had been brutal.
  — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
• That’s the best part of doing something that goes so far in the world.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• Nick Chubb has spent the better part of a decade as the heart and soul of the Cleveland Browns.
  — CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Smith had spent the better part of two decades on and off Death Row.
  — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
• That was always the best part of my year, going to host the show for a week.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
• The Nokia name may continue elsewhere in the world for the best part of the next year.
  — PC Magazine, 11 July 2025
• Then Power, who’d worked the case for the best part of six months, got the tip of a lifetime.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• Deepdale had a plastic pitch for the best part of a decade.
  — Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• But that’s not even the best part of the Spark GO for learning guitarists.
  — Spin Contributor, Spin, 18 Aug. 2023
• The ash plume forced the closure of most of Europe’s airspace for the better part of a week.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• Neil Young‘s first tour with Crazy Horse for the better part of a decade has hit a speed bump.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 27 June 2024
• For Wohl, releasing the owls back into the wild is the best part of her job.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
• To be able to build the trust of the Taliban and film with them for the greater part of a year is so commendable.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
• Chen agreed that adding supply was the best part of Harris’ plan.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• And for many, the best part of the day is watching not one, not two, but three football games, back to back.
  — Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• To have that direct impact on the guys, that’s always going to be the best part of the job.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• It’s taken me the better part of eighteen months to sit and write this.
  — Justine Murphy, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
• No, because the best part of life really is the process in the basement.
  — Gillian Telling, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
• For the mom-to-be, the best part of the entire day was hearing Sullivan's speech.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
• Wages have been climbing faster than prices now for the better part of two years.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
• But the best part of those wins (even better than seeing Cousin Greg, a.k.a.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• Crunchy pickles: But the best part of this pasta salad has to be the pickles.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
• Summer is the best part of it, every day with these guys, working.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 15 July 2025