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

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• 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
• Wages have been climbing faster than prices now for the better part of two years.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
• That was always the best part of my year, going to host the show for a week.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
• Fossil fuels still run the greater part of the world and will not run out of road soon.
  — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
• BeatKing has been the best part of the club for over a decade.
  — Asia Moore, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• Holmes drove around in an unmarked car for the better part of two hours on his gang unit shift.
  — Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
• Chen agreed that adding supply was the best part of Harris’ plan.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• This team’s core has been together for the better part of a decade.
  — Tony Jones, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
• Fifteen wins in a row for you guys, what has been the best part of your senior year so far?
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• It’s taken me the better part of eighteen months to sit and write this.
  — Justine Murphy, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
• Smith had spent the better part of two decades on and off Death Row.
  — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
• Summer is the best part of it, every day with these guys, working.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 15 July 2025
• One thing researchers know for sure — symptoms can last the better part of a month.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
• The Kralj home, where the greater part of the action takes place, is stunning.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 17 Aug. 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
• 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
• No, because the best part of life really is the process in the basement.
  — Gillian Telling, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
• For the better part of the next two weeks, the two sides presented their cases.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• For the best part of a decade, Liverpool did not do big-money moves.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
• 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
• 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
• Inflation has been at the top of consumers’ minds for the better part of the past two years.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024
• The Nokia name may continue elsewhere in the world for the best part of the next year.
  — PC Magazine, 11 July 2025
• 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
• Here's a band who for the best part of 30 years, had never really done this.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Frankly, the Celtics have been running the East for the better part of the past decade.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
• But that’s not even the best part of the Spark GO for learning guitarists.
  — Spin Contributor, Spin, 18 Aug. 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