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Example sentences for "great proportion"

  • In addition to this, wherever slavery exists, a great proportion of inhabitants are rendered indolent, and indolence iz followed by vices and dissipation.

  • Must not a great proportion of our citizens becum manufacturers and thus looz the bodies and the spirit of soldiers?

  • In a great proportion of the townships, which hav been lately settled, there iz no clergyman or other person of superior information, to direct the popular councils and check a rizing opposition.

  • Cassia trees, with their elegant pinnate foliage and conspicuous yellow flowers, formed a great proportion of the lower trees, and arborescent arums grew in groups around the swampy hollows.

  • These characteristics of the Para Indians are applicable, of course, to some extent, to the Mamelucos, who now constitute a great proportion of the population.

  • On the main river, palms of twenty or thirty different species form a great proportion of the mass of trees, while on the Rio Negro, they play a very subordinate part.

  • The Rheumatism goes off either by Stool, by turbid thick Urine which drops a great Proportion of a yellowish Sediment, or by Sweats: and it generally happens that this last Discharge prevails towards the Conclusion of the Disease.

  • Every person must know that a great proportion of business must arise from a commercial city.

  • The Coast in the neighbourhood of this old village is slipping from the Sides of the high hills, in emence masses; fifty or a hundred acres at a time give way and a great proportion of an instant precipitated into the Ocean.

  • The coast in the neighbourhood of Clarks Mountain is sliping off & falling into the Ocean in immence masses; fifty or a hundred Acres at a time give way and a great proportion in an instant precipitated into the Ocean.

  • Indians appear on some parts of the river to have distroyed a great proportion of the little timber which there is by seting fire to the bottoms.

  • That a great proportion, at least, of the new deposit in the delta of the Rhone consists of rock, and not of loose incoherent matter, is perfectly ascertained.

  • The supplies of forage had failed, and a great proportion of the horses had perished, or been rendered unfit for use.

  • A great proportion of the troops were discharged in the course of each year; and, except that the old officers remained, almost a new army was to be formed for every campaign.

  • A great proportion of this part of the army was missing; but it seems to have been expected that they would either rejoin their corps, or be found at their homes.

  • Though the members are to be for life, yet a great proportion of them are from descriptions of men always candidates for the royal favor in other lines.

  • A great proportion of the hills are waste.

  • But the minorities are too respectable, not to be entitled to some sacrifice of opinion in the majority; especially, when a great proportion of them would be contented with a bill of rights.

  • Their connections of blood, of friendship, and of acquaintance embrace a great proportion of the most influential part of the society.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great admirer; great body; great centre; great cloud; great content; great crisis; great development; great disadvantage; great doctor; great events; great excellence; great expense; great extent; great friend; great gain; great honor; great peace; great poem; great quantities; great reputation; great satisfaction; great shame; great shout; great things; great tree; shell burst