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Example sentences for "far the greater number"

  • In slavery times plantation owners got into the habit of spending their crop before it was grown, and that is still the practice of by far the greater number of cotton planters and farmers, large and small.

  • The rule is sound, and covers by far the greater number of cases, but it has its exceptions.

  • Other people, and unfortunately by far the greater number of those who get married must be classed among the "other people," will inevitably go through a quarter or half an hour of greater or less badness as the case may be.

  • Though the telescope discovers multitudes of stars where the naked eye sees none, yet they are, in far the greater number of instances, "seen projected on a perfectly dark heaven, without any appearance of intermixed nebulosity.

  • Accordingly, by far the greater number of the greatest scientists oppose it, as utterly unscientific, and have recorded their opposition, and the reasons for it.

  • In by far the greater number of #Stephoidea# the corners, and partly also the rods, of the shell are armed with numerous irregular spines, often forked or richly branched.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "far the greater number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    far away; far better; far from; far more; far off; far south; far the greater part; far too; far west; farewell dinner; farinaceous food; farm animals; farm crops; farm house; farm labor; farm life; farm machinery; farm work; farther south; how you; known weight; morphine poisoning; not mean; olive oil; social status; wood tree