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larger part

noun as in majority

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“Blacks were a much larger part of the population, and it didn’t protect them. It didn’t protect women for whole centuries.”

From Slate

"The cryptic ecology as nocturnal, solitary forest dwellers makes it difficult to discern the mechanism by which these four closely related species coexist. Observational studies indicate that fruits dominate their diets, while faunivory, or eating both other animals and insects, is rare. We suspected that faunivory was a larger part of their diets and investigated by applying stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses," said Miyabi Nakabayashi, an associate professor at Hiroshima University's Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life in Hiroshima, Japan.

Campaigners argue the charges are unfair because they make up a larger part of the bill of low energy users.

From BBC

They studied these factors at the county level, from Pennsylvania and New Jersey up through Maine, to see if certain communities shared a larger part of the pollution burden than others.

It is what’s known as for fiscal drag and it means that as incomes rise, a larger part of your wage may go to government coffers than otherwise.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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