great majority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandmajority
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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majority
noun
uk/məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/us/məˈdʒɔː.rə.t̬i/
the larger number or part ...
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(Definition ofgreatandmajorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thegreatmajorityof amacrine cells are double labeled.
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Thegreatmajorityof the female subjects and virtually all of the male subjects would undergo the operation again.
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Agreatmajorityof the disagreements were subsequently resolved through discussion.
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Stable secondary structure is present as a result of favourable solvent conditions, whilst thegreatmajorityof sidechains are disordered.
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Thegreatmajorityof adverse events were mild-to-moderate in severity.
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According to thegreatmajorityof interviewees, power cannot be contested, because it is divine by essence.
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Thegreatmajorityof noun modifiers are again, throughout the various time intervals, inanimate.
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In thegreatmajorityof responding departments the booklet had influenced staff and had led to changes in practice and improved care.
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Thegreatmajorityof the above modern quotations are from speakers who are likely to be regarded as in some sense authoritative.
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Nevertheless, thegreatmajorityof isolates remain fully susceptible to the agent.
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As widely documented in the literature, thegreatmajorityof people with emotional problems are seen in primary care.
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But these various accounts do not explain why the asymmetry is in the same direction in thegreatmajorityof humans.
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The modal five-year age-group of the participants was 75-79 years, and thegreatmajoritywere between 60 and 84 years.
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Thegreatmajority(92 %) of the cases reported had no access to municipal health facilities.
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This is important in that thegreatmajorityof studies on reading acquisition to date have used monosyllabic words.
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Although we may sometimes lack standards to apply it, we are quite sure about its application in thegreatmajorityof cases. 45.
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Thegreatmajorityof the book is devoted to experimental data.
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Thegreatmajorityof these cross-sectional studies have examined the use of speech act realization strategies by learners at different proficiency levels.
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Though examples of subsectionally anaphoric links appear to constitute thegreatmajority(see following section), there also exist cases such as (43) below.
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