vast majority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvastandmajority
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vast
adjective
uk/vɑːst/us/væst/
extremely ...
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majority
noun
uk/məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/us/məˈdʒɔː.rə.t̬i/
the larger number or part ...
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(Definition ofvastandmajorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is established that some 800,000 holdings were owner-operated, with an average of 5.4 hectares, an indication that thevastmajoritywere peasant-owned and -operated.
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As observed before, thevastmajorityof all utterances in the early two-word phase are root infinitives.
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If hemodynamic stability can be achieved, sinus rhythm returns in thevastmajorityof patients spontaneously within a few days after surgery.
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Thevastmajorityof respondents indicated that they had never engaged in this particular form of political participation.
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I only wish to remark that these heathland reclamations were responsible for the destruction of thevastmajorityof barrow cemeteries.
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Such questions are simply not at issue in thevastmajorityof this research.
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Thevastmajorityof reservoir simulations are two-phase, non-linear, non-symmetric models.
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Labour policy has systematically replaced public assistance policy for thevastmajorityof former recipients.
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Thevastmajorityare useless, and worse than useless, for any purpose of systematic study.
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Thevastmajorityare due to random noise fluctuations.
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Since thevastmajorityof protocols involve rats and mice, the vet should have expertise with these species and other common laboratory animal species.
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Thevastmajorityof the small numbers of male carers mentioned were grandfathers.
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Thevastmajorityof these types merely represent 'choices' in the inflection of a noun that are not predictable from its minimal form.
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But the status of that as a fact about human biology seems indisputable, at least for thevastmajorityof us for the forseeable future.
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These reforms concentrated their costs on organised labour, and typically affected thevastmajorityof both private and public sector unions.
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Under thevastmajorityof cases, the distribution of those responses and events are critically important to understanding either.
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Thevastmajorityinvolved in that struggle believed that cosmic forces dictated the nature and degree of civic well-being.
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