Example sentences of "great majority of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 2 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 3 | Moreover , the great majority of members of the fishing communities of the United Kingdom were either not affected by the Act at all or severely disadvantaged by it . |
| 4 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 5 | The great majority of nationals of the member state in question are resident and domiciled in that state and therefore meet that requirement automatically , whereas nationals of other member states would , in most cases , have to move their residence and domicile to that state in order to comply with the requirements of its legislation . |
| 6 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 7 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
| 8 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |