In the other circumstances, it is allowed to go on four days longer, and a stage is then reached between the two sexes, which in this species is designed to be the perfect condition of a large portion of the community.
It is also a world of difficulties and perils, and see how a large portion of our species are endowed with vigorous powers which take a pleasure in meeting and overcoming difficulty and danger.
Here she built herself a cottage, intending to make it her place of retirement for a large portion of each year.
So retentive was her memory that she could play without notes a large portion of the works of Handel, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Of delicate health, she might have spent a large portion of her time in fretful complainings; but she looked to her Heavenly Father to consecrate even her sicknesses to His service.
One reason for this was that a large portion of his audience was composed of what is sometimes called strong-minded women, who fully expected to acquire the right of suffrage on democratic principles.
So that there was a large portion of liberality mixed with his natural severity.
From this private difference of opinion an obstinate controversy soon developed itself, in which a large portion of the public took part on one side or the other.
A large portion of "Woodnotes" is devoted to an account of his pilgrimage in the forests of Maine; and the ode to "Friendship" must have been inspired either by him or Carlyle.
A large portion of this rice is frequently lost on account of the bad weather.
They could not themselves tell, as the attitude of a large portion of the spectators would be determined by which way the battle went.
It was no loss of time to them, nor to us, to spend a large portion of the waking hours of a week in fabricating a needle out of a bone, where a civilized man could purchase a much better one with the product of three minutes' labor.
A half dozen burglars or other active criminals in a town will produce the impression that a large portion of the population are law breakers.
One of the first acts of the English Government, when it took up the reins, was to allot to each of these constituent fragments a large portion of the land.
The Transvaal has a boundary line of over 1,600 miles in circumference, and of this a large portion is disputed by different native tribes.
It was not possible to plan an expedition of any sort when it was probable that a large portion of the command would be out of service before it was completed.
A large portion of the army started in a race for Washington, the civilians in the lead.
This ruffian attack was by a large portion of the North looked on as an exhibition of southern chivalry, so called, and not entirely without reason as the sequel showed.
The negotiation itself would have been simplified, and this long-standing dispute, spreading over a large portion of the world, would have been brought to a more speedy conclusion.
A large portion of the people in one section of the Republic declares it not only inexpedient on these grounds, but as disturbing the equal relations of property by legislation, and therefore unconstitutional and unjust.
The extraordinary rise in the river this season has destroyed a large portionof the Shillook crops, therefore the present of corn will be most acceptable to the old king.
A curious accident had happened to Ismail Pacha by the sudden break-up of a large portion of the sudd, that had been weakened by cutting a long but narrow channel.
A large portion of the bowels protruded, and were hanging a foot below the horse's belly.
A large portion of France united with the crown of England on the accession of Henry II, who founds the Plantagenet line, following Stephen's death.
I tell thee, my kind physician, that for a season, in an insane attempt to effect my liberty, I cut through a large portion of the living rock.
A large portion of that miscellaneous army which came to regain the holy places of Palestine, and the blessed Sepulchre itself, from the infidels, had established themselves in a camp within a mile, or thereabouts, of Scutari.
He would always, by a large portion of the members of that Church, be regarded as a deserter.
The indifferent, a large portion of every society, were glad that the anarchy was over, and conformed to the Presbyterian Church as they had conformed to the Episcopal Church.
The region's economy is mature: services and manufacturing account for the dominant share of economic activities, and raw materials and semimanufactured goods constitute a large portion of imports.
The great majority of households gain their livelihoods from subsistence farming and migrant labor; a large portion of the adult male work force is employed in South African mines.
Mayotte is not self-sufficient and must import a large portion of its food requirements, mainly from France.
In addition, Mozambique is on track to receive a formal cancellation of a large portion of its external debt through a World Bank initiative.
Nomads and semi-nomads, who are dependent upon livestock for their livelihood, make up a large portion of the population.
Tourism is a key industry, providing a large portion of GDP and foreign exchange earnings.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large portion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
