Example sentences of "the majority of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of players on both sides have had no competitive cricket since the World Cup . |
| 2 | Whilst accepting that this is an oversimplification of a process that includes a sophisticated method of calculating relative costs ( ie the weighted factors ) , it nonetheless indicated how the further education process could be improved , assuming that Colleges could enhance their income level once the majority of constraints on local operations were removed . |
| 3 | This is so also for children , so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets . |
| 4 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 5 | He then handed business a plum : the majority of seats on each board will be held by business representatives . |
| 6 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 7 | The first example describes , and because it does not comment , appears to legitimise the hierarchical organisation of labour in offices , with the majority of workers on lower pay than the minority . |
| 8 | It is used in the majority of microcomputers on sale in Britain . |