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For the better part of the past two decades, Americans have been living in a state of willful optimism about our financial future.

He pulled me aside and sat me down in his office where he told me stories and jokes for the better part of half an hour.

Our estimate was that it would not occur for the better part of a year.

He was an old fellow who had devoted the better part of a long life to the perfection of a mechanical subterranean prospector.

After sleeping around for the better part of my 20s, it somehow occurred to me that I wasn't giving everyone a fair shot.

But I found the strength inside to see, found the better part of me, And I'll never let it go.

Even today, people holed up in windowless offices before glowing computer screens may not see their fellows for the better part of each day.

The question of how many rocky worlds exist in the galaxy has perplexed astronomers for the better part of a century.

I spent the better part of a year investigating Iranian blogs and relevant literature on them.

The jury had been sequestered for the better part of a year and was showing signs of strain and exhaustion.

With his poll ratings hovering at 30 percent for the better part of a year, no one wants to follow Bush anywhere.

Even if it seems as if you are going back to a part of the past, it is only because from there, you can reach a better part of the future.

Machulis convinced Adafruit to purchase the device and publish the results online, but that process took the better part of a week.

She was in and out of hospitals for the better part of six years.

For the better part of this article, we assume familiarity with the basic concepts of the XML stage and an understanding of XML schema.

And not even the most rabid neocons expected that "mission accomplished" would take the better part of a decade to be realized in Iraq.

alone in my bedroom , sitting at my desk , i sometimes spent the better part of an afternoon on a single maze.

The sale suggests investors expect weak economic growth and below average inflation for the better part of the next decade.

Taiwan's property markets have underperformed the rest of the region for the better part of a decade.

We've lived here for the better part of a year.

For the better part of a century, biologists have assumed that these specialized structures evolved for flight, but that's clearly not true.

You ought to be full of principle. You have had religious advantages and abundant inducements to choose the better part.

I now respect her as someone who took a leap of faith I couldn't, and the better part of me is happy they're happy.

And like America, Norway's PISA scores have been stalled in the middle ranges for the better part of a decade.

And for the men and women who spent the better part of their professional lives working on Galileo, it is a bittersweet day.

O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?

I spent the better part of my junior and senior years of high school obsessing over which college I was going to attend.

A walled fortress has stood on this Moscow site for the better part of a thousand years.

I thought to myself "discretion is the better part of valour" , so instead of tackling the thieves singlehanded, I rang for the police.

It took Hyundai the better part of 20 years to gain respectability and churn out a competitive line of products.

When I was growing up, my family spent the better part of July and August at my grandparents' country house in Normandy.

Then even at the stadium it is hard to control the emotions but most of the games we won so that was the better part of this.

Strangely, this is how homes have been built in the U. S for the better part of a century.

Developers have been dominating the lists of the wealthiest Chinese for the better part of the past decade as housing prices skyrocket.

These four books suggest that mild panic might be the better part of wisdom.

The sergeant chose the better part of valor, saluting Edwards, then shrugging to his men and reorganizing them.

The first time I looked at the map I spent the better part of an hour reading and then rereading the bits of information in those boxes.

It turns out , Miguel spent the better part of his career in the Mikumi National Park in Africa .

Now these provisional structures have, in some cases, remained standing for the better part of a human lifetime.

There are time the better part of in Confucius lifetime, be to be engaged in educational work.

It took Jia the better part of his life to fulfill his childhood dream but his hard work and persistence is a good lesson for us all.

If everyone understands that discretion is the better part of valour, many accidents could be avoided.

Today, like most days for the better part of the past eight years, he is locked away in a dungeon on Fidel Castro's island paradise.

China spent some $43 billion and the better part of a decade preparing for the Beijing Olympics.

He thought discretion the better part.

Growing up in the East, I believed for a long time that I lived in the morally better part of Germany.

Mr. B told his son not to do any risky things because discretion is the better part of valor.

Nobody starts a software project planning to fail, but discretion truly is the better part of valor if things start coming apart.

Some fine tuning remains as far as specific mob levels and attributes, but the better part of this daunting task is done!

We talk of our dual personality, and do nothing to cultivate the better part.

It took the better part of an hour before the impossible became possible, and another hour before they could agree on terms.

Real power for the first time in the better part of a century is no small bauble.

Selling Volvo will take "the better part of five to six months, if not longer" , according to a banker.

As it's been said: "Discretion is the better part of valor. "

"We spent the better part of a whole year figuring out how to communicate with each other, " Ecker remarks.

The watch cost the better part of his pay.

In today's volatile markets, such discretion might prove the better part of valour.

They have already received an "earnest, " but the better part of what Christ has purchased for them lies yet in the promise of God.

i spent the better part of friday afternoon convincing the alumnae .

Then you can spend your time on the "getting better" part and forget about what other companies' conversion rates are.

The journey took her the better part of an hour.

My wife and I have five kids, which means that we spent the better part of 20 years with very limited choices in our personal lives.

8 "I spent the better part of the past three months enduring criticism that's normally leveled at some kind of genociadl tyrant. "

Discretion is sometimes the better part of valor.

In addition, when depositing a crab, had better part with other edibles , prevent alternate pollution.

We've known we could do this for the better part of 15 years, ' he added.

You've finished one part of your life, and now a new and even better part is beginning.

I know you dislike me and I dislike you, then we'd better part right now.

I know that the better part of my soul will remain behind. . . forever.

Most of the information, all of the information out there, has been circulating now for the better part of 18, 24, 36 months.

I will not drive 80 miles per hour ; as discretion is the better part of valor.

Douglas: Now, we've been in contact for the better part of a fortnight.

I know you hate me and I hate you, we had better part right now.

the better part of sth.

that can take the better part of two hours to play.

This is his life's work, an 1100 page saga that consumed his life for the better part of twenty years.

The people delight in it; the better part of every man feels: This is my music; this is myself.

I have spent the better part of the last year in abject misery.

They have kept thy better part in bondage too long already!

From Hong Kong, it took the better part of a day to get to Guangzhou on the once daily train service.

Conclusion The clone (SjA1)identified by the specific Ig from the library played a better part in the immunodiagnosis of schistosomiasis.

The clouds have all turned grey And now the waves are crashing in , I thought I could survive but reality has got the better part of me

to become absorbed, for the better part of a summer's day, in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry or upon the floor;

This may take the better part of a decade to see through;

I thought I could survive but reality has got the better part of me

We always were the better part of me

For the better part of me

I spent the better part of the day