Example sentences of "[vb base] the majority [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not aware of any proposal to upgrade the Piccadilly or Victoria lines , which carry the majority of passengers to and from King 's Cross . |
| 2 | This is so also for children , so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets . |
| 3 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 4 | And for women who work less than 16 hours per week ( as do the majority of women in West Belfast ) the legislation does not cover them ; there is no obligation to monitor those working under 16 hours per week ! |
| 5 | Community relations and neighbourhood policing reverses the process of depersonalization , and with regard to the police this encourages them to develop a more subtle set of typifications which categorize the majority of residents in West Belfast as decent , honest , and , at root , friendly . |
| 6 | If we ignore the majority of buildings in villages which invariably date to the sixteenth century and later , we are left with settlement plans of bewildering complexity . |
| 7 | Why , then , have the majority of studies of normal adult language processing been concerned with language comprehension ? |
| 8 | Despite the rise in female employment , women today perform the majority of tasks within the household . |
| 9 | In England and Wales those aged 65 + represent the majority of deaths from all forms of heart disease and strokes . |