They have tried for the better part of two years?
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"It's been the better part of 25 years," she said.
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The better part of the job for Lockhart et al.
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The Knicks dominated for the better part of three quarters.
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In this climate, caution is the better part of valour.
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He had gone unchallenged for the better part of two decades.
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Chloe waits for him for the better part of an hour.
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You've got the better part of your life ahead of you.
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Not giving him the better part of a year as champion.
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Indeed, it's known that for the better part of a decade.
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Nevertheless, it took the better part of seven years, he said.
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I spent the better part of the week in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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We spend the better part of our waking hours at work.
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He did not return for the better part of five years.
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We wait the better part of the day in the terminal.
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The case remained unsolved for the better part of a decade.
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The "we can do better" part has never been spelled out.
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Back then the trip took the better part of a day.
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I worked from home for the better part of five years.
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This bias has persisted for the better part of two centuries.
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He scorched the nets for the better part of 48 minutes.
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The two have been talking for the better part of a year.
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We're way too suppressed now for the better part of eight years.
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Campaigns spent the better part of a year fighting for Soucy's support.
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I've been dating online for the better part of the past decade.
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Final Fantasy XV's development famously stretched the better part of a decade.
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He's been a benchwarmer for the better part of the last month.
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But really, the better part is that it becomes a communal experience.
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The injury left her bedridden for the better part of a year.
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We spent the better part of a year in this idyllic phase.
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He took the better part of an hour to open for business.
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I thought about pork gyros for the better part of 14 hours.
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I&aposve been shouting mine for the better part of a decade.
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The testimony of lynchings continues for the better part of two pages.
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But the beef cheeks alone took the better part of a day.
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T. and I lay around for the better part of the day.
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It was above 80 percent for the better part of the 1990s.
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Negotiations for Trump's testimony lasted for the better part of a year.
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But the better part of me knows this attitude would only hurt me.
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The better part of a generation of the natural leaders of Europe perished.
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I've been covering online privacy issues for the better part of a decade.
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE been campaigning against it for the better part of a decade.
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I was a self-taught engineer for the better part of 60 years.
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Jennings was Tampa Bay's center fielder for the better part of two seasons.
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She spent the better part of three months unconscious in a Viennese hospital.
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And that everyone gets a much better part of the game from it.
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I've been wearing the Motiv for the better part of two weeks now.
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For the better part of a decade, I watched football every single Sunday.
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Snipes has been a train wreck for the better part of two decades.
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I've recognized the reach of mortality for the better part of five decades.
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Low growth became the new normal for the better part of a decade.
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FEIGE This has been my life for the better part of a decade.
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The Who represented Rogan's main gig for the better part of his life.
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West Virginia was a Democratic stronghold for the better part of a century.
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For the better part of several years, I saw my labmates every day.
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Tatum was the Celtics' driving force for the better part of three periods.
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He had to maintain that position for the better part of eight hours.
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For the better part of a year I've been hearing the same refrain.
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The fashion label has been under fire for the better part of 2017.
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We've been researching voice assistant technology for the better part of a year.
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The corporations are getting the better part of this whole being-a-person deal.
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I know, because I've been using Ulysses for the better part of six years.
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Before that, he served in the House for the better part of 20 years.
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For the better part of the last decade, Amazon Fresh has been an enigma.
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Operations would likely be affected for "the better part of the day," he said.
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The judge began by probing CNN's arguments for the better part of an hour.
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We've battled that at different levels for the better part of our whole career.
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For the better part of a decade, he has eaten standing up, in isolation.
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He cried for the better part of eight hours during his first psilocybin session.
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Accordingly, Mr. Grant has spent the better part of his career in university jobs.
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I followed The Bulletproof Diet fairly religiously for the better part of 18 months.
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She tells me she hasn't been sleeping for the better part of a year.
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Larry Zanko has been thinking about potholes for the better part of three decades.
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They went back and forth about this for the better part of a year.
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I know, because I spent the better part of my 20s involved in it.
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Thousands were without power for months -- some for the better part of a year.
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They had allegedly spent the better part of a year sleeping in separate rooms.
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To do this, I've spent the better part of 2019 connecting with presidential candidates.
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Basically, I've been talking about Fire Emblem for the better part of the year.
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For the better part of a year, the company prepared for its India launch.
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The two then spent the better part of an hour together behind closed doors.
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She and her fiancé have spent the better part of a year being relationship goals.
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It's a funny thought, having one large breast for the better part of a year.
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I've been dating since I was 17, so for the better part of a decade.
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For the better part of the 21st century, sarcastic humor reigned supreme in television comedy.
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"Young Love" spent the better part of six months on the country and pop charts.
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We spend the better part of the afternoon trying on a variety of wedding dresses.
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After all I have been researching Mexican gastronomy for the better part of two decades.
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Naturally, people on Twitter have been freaking out for the better part of the day.
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For the better part of eight years, we have been cheering for death and destruction.
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I spent the better part of my teens and 20s letting this pattern play out.
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So why have I enjoyed them, especially Maury, for the better part of 20 years?
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Brian Michael Bendis has been working with Marvel for the better part of 20 years.
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For the better part of four decades, since Regents of the University of California v.
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John Kasich represented for the better part of two decades, is one Republicans should carry.
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Local organizers have been fighting the CPV project for the better part of a decade.
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The unique ASCII art style defined the game for the better part of two decades.
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Mr. Chalamet, who spent the better part of the ceremony giggling, started giggling once more.
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The better part of the second half of the book relay his dreams in detail.
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At least, they didn't get along for the better part of the past two years.
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I found myself tearing into the riveting tale for the better part of the vacation.
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Fans can watch football for the better part of 24 hours should they so choose.
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I spent the better part of the war with the National Security Agency, often undercover.
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Amanda gets the better part of the deal, even though she owns the better house.
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Before I joined CNBC, I worked at home for the better part of a decade.
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African art has been present in Parisian collections for the better part of a century.
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"That poem is trying to get people to listen to the better part of themselves."
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My lower body was sore as all hell for the better part of a week.
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The president-elect has spent the better part of his transition in his penthouse aerie.
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And it may be the better part of sanity and time management to do it.
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But Turkey has also been battling Kurdish insurgency for the better part of a year.
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She spent the better part of two years doing the capturing and testing and preparation.
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"For the better part of 12 years, we became the best of friends," he said.
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I read the better part of a thousand pages for this asshole and his issues?
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Microsoft spent the better part of a decade fighting an antitrust case in the early 2000s.
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Men's rights groups have been harping on paternity fraud for the better part of a century.
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Processing that much data, the police said, will likely take the better part of a year.
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He's been running in some version of the shoe for the better part of a year.
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Before he arrived in Fayetteville, for the better part of four years Thompson's life was track.
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The enjoyable energy that has sustained the better part of an hour collapses into painful intimacy.
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For the better part of two years, I went to therapy, and worked on getting healthy.
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There's 4GB of storage and a battery that will last the better part of the day.
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Reporter Angela Chen spent the better part of the afternoon repeatedly poking at her own eyes.
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Japan has been the laboratory for experimental monetary policy for the better part of 20 years.
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A similar feeling seeped into the Cardinals&apos bones for the better part of three games.
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The truth It took the better part of the decade, but the starship was finally completed.
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Tyler, The Creator has been successfully moving in relative silence for the better part of 2017.
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For the better part of a decade, Nelson Summerfield has been shooting full-length movie remakes.
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That is the better part of the job, and also the part that comes most naturally.
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Screnar said she and her husband have known Gianforte for the better part of a decade.
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It ruled the video game sales and income charts for the better part of a decade.
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Wall Street investors have been tuning out Trump's tweets for the better part of a year.
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Many of these latter programs have been in place for the better part of two decades.
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And it still works perfectly even after the better part of a half-decade of use.
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FCA has been trying to merge with another automaker for the better part of a decade.
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The manuscript went into Hurston's archives and, for the better part of a century, stayed there.
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Uribe has spent the better part of his life understanding that this is how baseball works.
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It's been your main way of expressing yourself for the better part of a decade now.
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We all know that Cleveland's defense has been a disaster for the better part of 239.8.
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After the crash, he spent the better part of a year in the hospital on dialysis.
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The phone rang, and it did not stop ringing for the better part of an hour.
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But perhaps the better part of wisdom is with one of Mireille Knoll's granddaughters, Noa Goldfarb.
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"The plane shook violently for the better part of five minutes," he said in an email.
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That she and I made it through the better part of a decade was a feat.
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Rollbacks of democracy have been central to Republican rule for the better part of two decades.
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The Murdochs have been fighting for control of Sky for the better part of a decade.
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For the better part of the second half, they rained 3-point shots from every angle.
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By that point, you've already been through the better part of an instructive and generous life.
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The White House had spent the better part of a year cooperating fully with Mueller's probe.
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For the better part of the 20th century, it was considered a normal part of aging.
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Trump has been all over the map on guns for the better part of two decades.
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If the fight happens, Fury would get the better part of a 221-212 purse bid.
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Melissa Chang has lived with depression for 17 years, the better part of her adult life.
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The state spent the better part of a year debating what bathrooms transgender kids should use.
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But it has spent the better part of the last four decades tearing down that decision.
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Mueller was an integral part of this very "community" for the better part of three decades.
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After all, it's that the world Trump has occupied for the better part of four decades.
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Mr. Hernandez has spent the better part of his adult life crafting a viral internet personality.
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But the US has a stringent vetting process, which takes the better part of two years.
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Chances are pretty darn good that you spent the better part of December heat styling your hair.
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But then, they aren't spending the better part of a week on a shipped filled with headbangers.
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Unused, unloaded, they stayed in the back of his safe for the better part of a decade.
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That's an old Gizmodo conclusion, one that we've stood by for the better part of a decade.
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Well, let's just say these two spent the better part of the date all over each other.
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In fact, I have spent the better part of the last two years trying to get pregnant.
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The better part of a century after its start, some migrants resettled in California after Hurricane Katrina.
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As of this week, after the better part of a decade, I'm no longer an Evernote user.
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So I set it aside for a better part of a year before picking it up again.
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We've been exposed to Kanye's sexism, in varying degrees, for the better part of nearly two decades.
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It will probably require the better part of a billion to get the first passenger flights happening.
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For the better part of human history, creating light often meant tons of work and environmental damage.
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For the better part of this century, the Knicks have pursued saviors to turn the franchise around.
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The media-driven circus that ensued effectively derailed his career for the better part of a decade.
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It's taken the better part of the last three weeks to recover around 80% of my health.
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Prince steered clear of iTunes and, later, streaming music services for the better part of a decade.
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It took them the better part of a decade, but here's what they came up with: 1.
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"We spent the better part of two decades on the front line of a war," Jones says.
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Comic books have been a staple of American pop culture for the better part of 90 years.
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It took me the better part of a week, and there was a lot of profanity involved.
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Afterward, he entered the production side of fashion, where he spent the better part of a decade.
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It is a giant, 5.2 megabyte spreadsheet that he's spent the better part of a decade developing.
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DeviantArt endured for the better part of two decades by catering to a range of creative niches.
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For the better part of a decade, however, the Applet was the internet's outlet for creative interactivity.
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I popped up, and fell, and popped up, and fell, for the better part of 90 minutes.
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For starters, interest in CTE has grown markedly and steadily over the better part of two decades.
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The entire process, if everyone meets the given deadlines, can take the better part of a year.
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Companies have found it worth their while to offer insurance for the better part of a century.
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But New York's horizon has been in perpetual flux now for the better part of a decade.
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The better part of craft is diligence, but it's a hard lesson to learn with no example.
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When you're pregnant, you have the better part of a year to prepare, physically, financially and emotionally.
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I've been writing about productivity and how to work smarter for the better part of a decade.
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The whole project took the better part of two years and cost $15 million, including the purchase.
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Despite this recent worldwide renown, Shinkai has been making films for the better part of two decades.
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For the better part of three sets, Cilic did the same to Federer at Wimbledon last year.
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Bloomberg's team now dwarfs what his opponents have taken the better part of a year to build.
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The stock has been an underperformer for the better part of the last three to four months.
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They're complicated and they're evolving, they're confusing, but they're probably the better part of who we are.
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But Ms. Simpson and Ms. Robert understand that sometimes discretion can be the better part of power.
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"The team has poured the better part of three years of their lives into it," he says.
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Death count 63 Varys + 1 Euron + 1 Qyburn + 1 Hound + 1 Mountain + 1 Jaime Lannister + 1 Cersei Lannister + 1 Leader of the Golden Company who never knew what was coming + The better part of several armies + The better part of a million Kings Landing residents = ——— 1,000,000 people, probably.
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My lips had a subtle rose-gold, iridescent thing going on for the better part of the day.
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For the better part of a century, the style has been present in bistros and other public spaces.
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For the better part of a decade, there was a rough 280 million euro ceiling to these deals.
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I've been using iOS 11 on a new 10.5-inch iPad for the better part of a week.
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Prebble spent the better part of a year promising a fleshed out beta, part of the final sprint.
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Silicon Valley has been the most innovative place in U.S. industry for the better part of 70 years.
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"We spent the better part of our childhoods as neighbors, our two families right next door," Joely writes.
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For the better part of the last 10 years, I've really been focusing on how young people connect.
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I'll be unemployed for the better part of a year, so I've been saving for a while now.
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Are you still as negative today as you have been for the better part of the last year?
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They crashed on friends' couches and spent the better part of 18 months working on the new idea.
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"I've been developing this concept inside of my dresses for the better part of five years," she shares.
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I say this as someone who spent the better part of a workday piecing together a small piano.
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Rumours of extramarital dalliances had long dogged Mr Clinton; he decided discretion was the better part of valour.
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For the better part of six decades, Caitlyn Jenner's inner life was marked by shame, confusion, and isolation.
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For the better part of six decades, Caitlyn Jenner's personal life was burdened with shame, confusion and isolation.
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He spent the better part of his life mastering that stuff and continuing to advance his cinematic vocabulary.
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For the better part of this year, Trump and McConnell appeared to maintain a relatively cordial working alliance.
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For the better part of the Twilight series, Nikki Reed played a vampire who was vain and selfish.
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Facebook has spent the better part of the year answering difficult questions about its handling of user data.
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Developer Bungie spent the better part of a year tweaking Destiny 2 and its loot table after launch.
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A bold statement to say when he spent the better part of two years defending his longtime friend.
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Because Lorber and Trump have gone together like wieners and mustard for the better part of three decades.
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He began his statement nearly yelling and didn't turn it down for the better part of an hour.
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The pact resolved a trio of issues that had taken the better part of nine months to negotiate.
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They can take the better part of a day and end in the woods, near some old temples.
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Stephen Michael Cohen and Gary Kremen spent the better part of the 1990s fighting for custody of sex.
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"For the better part of a decade, I've been fighting smoke," a bitter Mr. Hefner told The Times.
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Now it's a Trump sleepy Joe world for the better part of seven months once Bernie is beaten.
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He remained on the down-low for the better part of 30 years, fearing he would be outed.
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"CoDex 1962" raised me up, let me down and consumed me for the better part of a week.
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They've spent the better part of a decade convincing their voter base that Obamacare is a terrible program.
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Now, for the better part of two decades, I have created films that are a mirror to society.
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The Pentagon will still need to rely on Russian engines for the better part of the next decade.
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"I think we've been dealing with this hoax for the better part of a year," Sanders said Wednesday.
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I've spent the better part of 2019 wondering why this lack of disability discussion has been so stark.
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It has been the reality for the better part of the last decade, reflecting long-building, powerful forces.
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Finally, once completed, the new GBSD force will remain in place for the better part of five decades.
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I've spent the better part of my career as a journalist chronicling and examining that sort of trauma.
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The better part is easy: We get access to information powerful people and institutions want to keep secret.
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We have done that now, let's be honest, for the better part of the last 30-40 years.
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The strong dollar has been torpedoing everyone's international investments for the better part of a year or so.
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He did, slowly, over the better part of a decade, during which time Maurice came onto the scene.
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From a submerged posture, the subs could lob 850-pound shells over the better part of a mile.
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We've all had smartphones for the better part of a decade, yet their prices just seem to keep climbing.
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After a few abysmal failures, we successfully clink bottles and knock back the better part of our lukewarm beers.
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MURPHY: Well, I think that we&aposve been hearing these threats for the better part of the year now.
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For the better part of the season's third episode, Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) stares at her iPhone, agonizing over it.
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Why have they spent the better part of eight or nine days saying they didn't know anything about it?
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A male colleague, Jon Bulette, told me he's steadily worn mostly jumpsuits for the better part of three years.
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Investors, analysts and the press have been predicting Chinese real-estate Armageddon for the better part of a decade.
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Roberto Firmino, a Brazilian who cost the better part of $21 million last year, was quick to the rebound.
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Why it matters: Fossil fuels, particularly oil, have been shaping history for the better part of the last century.
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My wife and I recently spent the better part of year perusing the housing stock in Washington, our hometown.
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For the better part of the last year, tech pundits have been writing about the demise of the app.
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"She was basically just pregnant for the better part of two years in between carrying babies," Pasternak went on.
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Why the protests don't matter: Pai's spent the better part of the last 3 years aggressively criticizing the rules.
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It took the better part of a decade, but Marvel finally figured out who Thor was with Thor: Ragnarok.
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The Ozimals brand has been synonymous with virtual pets in Second Life for the better part of a decade.
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It's brilliant for anyone who isn't having an extensive routine that takes up the better part of the night.
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Even better, part of Zuul's body was mummified, preserving the fingernail-like sheaths that covered its bony body armor.
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After all, Apple leadership has only been thinking about TV and news for the better part of a decade.
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The idea was not to let individuals reign over the American polity for the better part of four decades.
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However, Jenner has indeed been spotted on the red carpet in the piece for the better part of 2015.
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It is not their fault they have been chased by a sociopath for the better part of eight years.
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"It brings to life a better part of our culture," said Spencer McCarty, a 453-year-old Makah whaler.
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Why have they spent the better part of eight or nine days saying you didn't know anything about it?
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I am not from Maine, though I have lived here for the better part of the last 9 years.
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For the better part of a century, this could be taken as a challenge to modernizing progress in art.
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He spent the better part of two decades in the trade, primarily as a marketer and a sales manager.
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Wealth Matters FOR the better part of a week last year, Nancy Wergeles searched her home in Weston, Conn.
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I spend the better part of $10 for that exact same lunch at a hot dog stand across town.
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For the better part of the past two years, Catholics around the world have been fighting over a footnote.
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The Fed also has an inflation target, which it has routinely undershot for the better part of six years.
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"If I thought we would be together for the better part of eight months," he said, "I would resign."
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The Ozimals brand has been synonymous with virtual pets in Second Life for the better part of a decade.
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The Predators have been holding down one of those spots for the better part of the last few months.
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I've been telling myself that I'd find time to play Persona 4 for the better part of five years!
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Walter Maioli has been tinkering with the sounds of ancient instruments for the better part of half a century.
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We love it: Facebook's 1.4 billion daily users spend the better part of an hour on it every day.
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Op-Ed Contributor Congressional Republicans spent the better part of 2017 trying and failing to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Philadelphia officials have researched the idea for the better part of a year, including visiting a site in Vancouver.
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Singer, in other words, has been working on the X-Men franchise for the better part of two decades.
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For the better part of the last decade, Netflix has been the undisputed king of the online streaming world.
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I've spent the better part of my adult professional life online, half-distracted by newsfeeds and endless scrolling updates.
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I spent the better part of an hour wandering down stone paths damp with mist kicked up from waterfalls.
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Why do people fall for hoaxes like these, which have been around for the better part of a decade?
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Both industries require vehicles that can operate for the better part of a day while remaining on tight schedules.
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This new Jordan Klepper guy I know intimately cause I've been him for the better part of my life.
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Some senators spent only a few minutes in the facility; others stayed for the better part of an hour.
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Much of the plant's work force was laid off for the better part of a year after the explosion.
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We're seeing value outperform growth after growth really killing value for the better part of the last 10 years.
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Some of Facebook's most pressing issues have been a problem for the better part of the past ten years!
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Roiland, meanwhile, has apparently been jotting down game ideas in paper form for the better part of two years.
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The sisters, then in their 292s, bought the luncheonette and ran it for the better part of a decade.
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But it's a natural assumption for a celebrity whose image TV massaged for the better part of four decades.
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I've spent the better part of my life, one of the great joys of my life was meeting Geoff Canada.
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For the better part of the past two decades, Lindsay Lohan's fame has been the product of her public missteps.
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He spent the better part of Saturday trying to remove the chip from the fob's plastic coating without ruining it.
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She's got the better part of both the money and the brains in her marriage — and the thirst for revenge.
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The possibility of a revamped Penn Station has teased New York City travelers for the better part of two decades.
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Pop culture has been dominated by Marvel's cinematic universe and Game of Thrones for the better part of a decade.
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Would-be New Zealanders must normally spend the better part of five years living in the country before becoming citizens.
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The has been in a 16 percent range for the better part of two years, pingponging between 1,810 and 2,135.
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Getting all those systems on one device took "the better part of last year" for Lockly, says CEO Lee Zheng.
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Even though I've been playing Fortnite for the better part of a year, I still get surprised by the butterflies.
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On February 21, after spending the better part of four years doing his damndest to fight back, Mike finally passed.
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Those tiny-yet-irritatingly-noticeable dots have been an unavoidable part of smartphone design for the better part of decade.
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The Wizarding World's attractions are so immersive that you could spend the better part of a day exploring them all.
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He spent the better part of four years constructing the team necessary for his operation to run smooth as possible.
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They're pretty wound up tonight even though my boyfriend was home with them for the better part of the day.
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The Trump Taj Mahal spent the better part of this summer fighting with its workers over health and pension benefits.
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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty)After the better part of a day, Facebook's "family of apps" are being restored to normalcy.
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WWE said his career spanned the better part of 40 years, and featured showdowns with wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan.
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I spent a better part of the following weekend taking them for a test drive, and here's what I learned.
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"The demand is still there, but supply was shut off for the better part of a week," a trader said.
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The former High School Musical star, 30, and Butler have been together for the better part of the last decade.
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Apparently they're gonna FLOURISH ... because Gucci says the team won't be losing again for the better part of a DECADE.
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Milosh spent the better part of two years working on Blood, which he says, plainly, was a matter of circumstance.
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Non-domestic equity funds, which have been popular for the better part of the year, reeled in another $2.9 billion.
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After promising up the feature for the better part of a year, Dish's Hopper line just got Google Assistant functionality.
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As someone who has worked in the atheist movement for the better part of a decade, this silence scares me.
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For the better part of four decades, Dr. Jaffe has been a leader in the field of family business research.
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As someone who has strong-armed anxiety for the better part of her time on earth, I know the drill.
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At JetBlue, Ms. Mendelsohn said she worked for the better part of a year to bring the deal to fruition.
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Pelosi also managed to break the "parity" principle that has defined budget negotiations for the better part of a decade.
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Trump will spend the better part of the next two weeks in Asia, a trip he left for Friday morning.
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It took the better part of 2018 for Beijing to get a handle on the nature of the trade war.
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They attacked Vanity Fair and its editors with overwhelming outrage on social media for the better part of two days.
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I've been paid to be there — and listen to what is said there — for the better part of 30 years.
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That's notable because he has spent the better part of this year working to better understand what binds American communities.
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For the better part of a decade, we watched Meredith Grey set her heart's desire on one guy: Derek Shepherd.
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And it's a little-known fact, but IMAX had an editorial team now for the better part of a decade.
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He spent the better part of the last decade coaching in Russia, but returned to the United States in 2014.
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Akintola Hanif has been documenting his community in and around Newark, New Jersey, for the better part of two decades.
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Like most people I know, Spike spent the better part of her teenage years navigating feelings of sadness and loneliness.
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Within a month, the U.S. and Europe were facing a recession which would last the better part of a year.
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Besides, Jean has lived and worked in America for the better part of a decade, and roots have taken hold.
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The Globe and Mail newspaper reported in 2013 that Mr. Ford sold drugs throughout the better part of the 1980s.
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Don't forget, older Republicans (which is most Republicans) had been fighting Clinton for the better part of a quarter-century.
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Now, even though they haven't been together for the better part of a decade, the couple share two young children.
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For the better part of a decade, artificial intelligence has been propelled by a rocket fuel in seemingly endless supply.
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Then he spent the better part of the following year working on getting his unconventional plans approved by local authorities.
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It marks quite the comedown for Mr. Biden, the race's polling leader for the better part of the last year.
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Many of the troops killed last year had been deployed to war zones for the better part of a decade.
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HOUSTON — Tom Brady jerseys have been the top sellers among N.F.L. players for the better part of the past year.
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CIllizza: This is a city that has been ruled by Daleys for the better part of the last seven decades.
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Large and medium-size corporations collectively employ a majority of Americans and represent the better part of its economic activity.
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"But New York&aposs horizon has been in perpetual flux now for the better part of a decade," Chen wrote.
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Many immigrants with temporary protected status have lived in the US for the better part of a decade or longer.
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Traditional television, a medium considered so last century, has watched audiences drift away for the better part of a decade.
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AND SO YOU KNOW WE'VE HAD A SUPPRESSION OF RATES FOR THE BETTER PART OF A DECADE AROUND THE WORLD.
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She's got the better part of both the money and the brains in her marriage - and the thirst for revenge.
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I spent the better part of 16 years reporting stories that led me to people who had just missed death.
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Dan Girardi, Rangers—Girardi has been a key member of the Rangers' blueline for the better part of a decade.
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For the better part of two decades, Gawker Media and its founder and CEO Nick Denton have thrived on crisis.
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Trump has spent the better part of the first two years of his term taking credit for the stock market's run.
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The better part of our nature abhors seeing others fighting, cheating, lying, abusing, or on the receiving end of such things.
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And being able to correctly predict all these details has basically taken science the better part of a few thousand years.
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LA rapper Nocando has been no stranger to bearing it all in his music for the better part of this decade.
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Meronek has witnessed the debate over whether skating should be pushed into the mainstream for the better part of three decades.
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I'm the CEO of a tech company myself — and have been in this industry for the better part of two decades.
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Paul noted that he has been invested in both gold and silver for the better part of the last 45 years.
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Crafting, survival, and the like have become staples of open-world role-playing experiences for the better part of a decade.
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Encouraging riders to take more carpool trips has been a core mission at Lyft for the better part of a year.
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The decision to follow his gut and take less money for a better part made a major impact on his career.
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Retailers have reason to be worried, tech titans have been threatening retail for the better part of the last two decades.
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Yet he was prime minister, heading four center-right governments and dominating Italian politics for the better part of 20 years.
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After a shipping snafu with Amazon, I spent the better part of a day trying to track a Nintendo Switch down.
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The storefront on East 7th St. between 1st and 2nd Avenues has been dormant for the better part of two weeks.
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When we speak on the phone, she's been away from her home in Antigua for the better part of a month.
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Dracula spent the better part of his life at war with the Ottoman Turks, which controlled much of the surrounding area.
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The group Alexis Vive controls the better part of the neighborhood 23 de Enero, the largest pro-government stronghold in Caracas.
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So I spent the better part of the year researching and laying the groundwork for someone to run as an independent.
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"For the better part of the last 100 years, that wasn't the case," Garden said during CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Thursday.
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Matz felt intermittent soreness for the better part of two weeks, Callaway said, and last started a game Friday in Milwaukee.
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Obamacare has dominated politics for the better part of a decade and this opens the door to full replace-and-repeal.
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For the better part of the last century, trade was a key area of engagement for U.S. companies expanding overseas markets.
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In years past, entrants slowly racked up points in an announcement process that could take the better part of an hour.
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The Intellimouse, which debuted in 1996, was corded or required an unwieldy wireless receiver for the better part of a decade.
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But Schur, who sat on display in the box for the better part of the day, took it all in stride.
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The party just spent the better part of a week looking feckless amid pictures of children crying on our southern border.
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For the better part of a decade, they promised to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, if voters only gave them the chance.
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The first and most obvious theory is the one largely promulgated in the media for the better part of two years.
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I spent the better part of last year asking Martin Luther King, Jr's pointed question: Where do we go from here?
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Don't do that unless you want to spend the better part of your weekend repairing the damage done to your computer.
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Bernie Sanders in the Wolverine State's March 8 primary after campaigning for the better part of a week in the state.
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I've crushed on this boy—whom I also happened to room with in college—for the better part of five years.
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K. special relationship — that have contributed so much to U.S. security, prosperity and influence for the better part of a century.
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For the better part of four decades, solar neutrinos were at the heart of one of the largest mysteries in astrophysics.
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Mr. Meyer himself spent the better part of one session musing on the width of the mullions in the new windows.
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American presidential candidates spent the better part of the 20th century promising to help family farmers in the face of urbanization.
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You've been collecting the Church's financial information (or at least attempting to) for the better part of a decade or so?
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Mr. Goodman was at Money for the better part of two decades and wrote about all aspects of investing, including fraud.
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Syrians have been fleeing war for the better part of eight years — and their plight barely registers on the news anymore.
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The buoyant jobs market that has helped sustain American households for the better part of a decade did not go anywhere.
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State and city election boards have spent the better part of 3 years hardening their systems for a 2020 hacker invasion.
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Douthat: Discretion is the better part of valor, Frank, and after 2016 we all have reasons not to leap to conclusions.
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It should be noted that anticipation for AR's big breakout moment has been building for the better part of a decade.
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Why have so many people been waiting for the better part of a decade to experience this story to its conclusion?
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I spent the better part of two months, from Christmas 1978 until late February 1979, covering the Islamic revolution in Iran.
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A Trump rally in North Carolina or Wisconsin or Michigan will drive local news for the better part of a week.
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The other candidates have been campaigning for the better part of a year and had participated in eight other debates before.
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This episode left me perplexed, and it took me the better part of the day for it to fully sink in.
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I'd now been naked hiding in a bush as co-eds walked past me for the better part of an hour.
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Ryan has spent the better part of a decade crafting a coherent, sweeping agenda to reform and slash the American safety net.
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It's like Apple doesn't care about people who don't have the better part of a grand to spend on a new handset.
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This is the network, after all, that left Jon Snow's life hanging in the balance for the better part of a year.
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Ibeyi spent the better part of 2015 - 2016 on tour, capitalizing off the strength of their single "River" and its haunting video.
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Park, a professor at the University of Surrey in the UK, has been collecting bacteria for the better part of a decade.
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For the better part of two years, Thompson shuffled between his job and his apartment, smoking weed and drinking himself to sleep.
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Absolutely ludicrous speed To wit, I spent the better part of a decade as a concert photographer before working at The Verge.
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With good reason: Santos Yubero was renowned for his documentary coverage of Madrid, which spanned the better part of the 20th century.
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Having spent the better part of my life with J.Crew, I feel an immense pride and love for everyone at the company.
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Iraqi security forces have spent the better part of a year trying to retake Karma from the terror group, suffering heavy losses.
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He has been working alongside Nooyi for the better part of two decades and took over the role of CFO in 2010.
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And helping them getting ongoing funding for their work is something we've been thinking about for the better part of a decade.
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Mr. Thiel and Mr. Singer have both supported efforts to legalize same-sex marriage for the better part of the last decade.
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I had this on my bucket list for the better part of a decade, that maybe some day I'd work on it.
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The Democrats that have run the town for the better part of a decade are widely seen as more pragmatic than ideological.
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This includes an (ultimately useless) iPhone controller case and a pawn shop Wii I spent the better part of a week softmodding.
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I mean, those are positions I've advocated for the better part of four years, for five, for most of my time here.
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One astrophysicist has spent the better part of a decade trying to find the proverbial smoking gun to prove that it is.
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GIULIANI: But in any event, that&aposs not to boast, it&aposs to say we got the better part of the argument.
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Washington (CNN)For the better part of the last two decades, the conservative world has revolved around one thing: Fox News Channel.
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That's a crazy rapid pace of development for a company that's spent the better part of the last five years completely stagnant.
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After all, he's a Brooklyn Jew who has been in the Chinese-food business for the better part of half a century.
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"Two administrations have been talking about public-private partnerships for the better part of 12 years, and nothing has changed," said Coviello.
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For the better part of 2015, as train cars got slower and more crowded, Cuomo was content to completely ignore the MTA.
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Id Software's reboot of the most storied shooter in gaming had languished in development hell for the better part of a decade.
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Adam Schwarz spent the better part of a decade establishing himself as one of the best contortionists of East coast club music.
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I carried an M16A4 for the better part of my six years in the Army National Guard, including a tour in Iraq.
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For the better part of a year, the United States and China have been engaged in a tit-for-tat trade war.
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So, I spent the better part of my time in high school figuring out how to get as far away as possible.
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For the better part of a decade, both conservatives and liberals have increasingly embraced reforms to America's prison and criminal justice systems.
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The chart below shows the European index has topped the S&P 500 for the better part of the past 12 months.
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I've led policy forums and briefings, and enacted federal reforms to improve foster care services for the better part of two decades.
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"After struggling for the better part of the year, the dollar stores have gotten their groove back," the "Mad Money" host said.
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I know that firsthand, having spent the better part of the last week talking to voters in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago.
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Democrats have avoided an ugly battle for the better part of the last two decades, but time is not on their side.
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Wendy's has spent the better part of a decade upgrading its stores to include lounge seating, digital menu boards and Wi-Fi.
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She admitted that she was a "night owl" and that she had spent the better part of the previous night rehearsing. E!
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For the better part of an hour, a woman sits at a cutting board at the edge of the audience, gutting fish.
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Uber spent the better part of last year asking users through surveys and focus groups what they'd want in a loyalty program.
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The models rely on basic laws governing earthquake behavior that have been known for the better part of a century, experts said.
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The Gorae, North Korea's first experimental Sinpo-class ballistic missile submarine, has been under development for the better part of a decade.
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"If you look at it from technology, safety or quality, the 3-D part is often the better part," Mr. Fabig said.
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And with the exception of the first few weeks, I've spent the better part of the last 30 months free from cravings.
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"The better part of my career in public life has been working with victims," said Ms. Heitkamp, a former state attorney general.
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As President Trump spent the better part of his weekend lashing out at professional athletes, John McCain and Kim Jong-un, Mrs.
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For the better part of a decade, I spent my time in and out of homelessness, panhandling and scamming meals at shelters.
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For the better part of a decade, the name Hiram Monserrate has been shorthand for the darkest side of New York politics.
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She spent the better part of five days in a medically induced coma and was given a 5 percent chance of survival.
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Transitional as it seems in retrospect, for the better part of the last decade, episodic games looked like the next big thing.
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"I've spent the better part of 10 years working with Mike Jackson and we have a great collaborative relationship," Ms. Miller said.
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Uber, which has been working on the redesign for the better part of this year, has begun introducing the new features globally.
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"It took the better part of the day, so I'd say close to six hours or so, give or take," Gilreath said.
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She also noted that White Island was a "volcano that's been visited for the better part of 30 years" without serious misfortune.
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He's shared a bed with her, fathered children with her, and spent the better part of the last season by her side.
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Chuck Palahniuk knows this, and he's spent the better part of his career learning how to reduce language to its most lethal.
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First, Republicans and Democrats have to stand down from a fight they've been engaged in for the better part of a decade.
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Suffice it to say, by the 22015s the better part of the working class wanted nothing to do with the word liberal.
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Today, the better part of liberalism is Trillings — or those who'd like to be, at any rate — and everyone can hear them.
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They've been going for the better part of a week now, with Sunday being the biggest day yet (per the New York Times).
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Eliminating the console completely is something the game industry has dreamed of for the better part of two decades with decidedly mixed results.
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After fidgeting with my eyes sewn shut for the better part of two hours, I emerged with lashes that were indeed natural-looking.
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Alex and the rest of the guys spent the better part of half an hour bickering, bitching and hurling insults at one other.
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With what we have learned over the better part of a decade, why have cryptocurrencies still not solved this problem of fluctuating prices?
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That said, CES 2016 also highlighted the controversies that these products have been mired in for the better part of the last year.
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He said that he spent the better part of the last two weeks reassuring customers that his pizzeria had not been shut down.
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After campaigning on repealing and replacing Obamacare for the better part of a decade, they may feel like they have to pass something.
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Both executives have spent the better part of their careers working for Goldman Sachs — Blankfein had been CEO for the past 12 years.
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But for the better part of her career, Wright has faced repeated theft of her work from companies and brands across the world.
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Most of these devices were so pricey, however, that for the better part of a decade, only businesses could afford to install them.
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Then again, it's also what led to the harassment that initially drove Dzodan off the internet for the better part of two years.
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I've had a few breaks peppered in, but for the most part I've been smoking for the better part of 13 years now.
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For the better part of the next year, these students will have a taste of the rigours of being onboard a space station.
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I've spent the better part of the last decade with these characters, and I love these actors — I'm getting emotional talking about it.
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If you do all that, you'll end up with a healthy dog and running companion for the better part of the next decade.
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For the better part of 210 years, Mickelson's record at the Open — and on links courses in general — ranged from disappointing to dismal.
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Kurt Sonderegger had been working at Red Bull for the better part of a decade when he got a cryptic note on LinkedIn.
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"It would take at least, I would say, the better part of the day to not get your feet out," Mr. Bartelotti said.
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Trump spent the better part of July going after congressional Democrats of color, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Massachusetts Rep.
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As the senior strategist for Senator Obama, I spent the better part of two years thinking about how to deal with Hillary Clinton.
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Prior to Trump's ascendancy, Republicans had spent the better part of the last four decades casting Russia as a savvy and dangerous enemy.
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For the better part of 30 years, the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry have been the cars of choice for American families.
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Mr. Olowu spends the better part of every month in London, where his studio and store are; Ms. Golden lives in New York.
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My name is Clarke, and I have been a part-time Uber and Lyft driver for the better part of a year now.
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"Manufacturing and oil have moved in lockstep for the better part of five years," said Steve Chiavarone, associated portfolio manager for Federated Investors.
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For the better part of a decade, the skies have grown increasingly hostile to jumbo jets such as Boeing's 747 and Airbus' A380.
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Both of those polls are right about where the generic ballot average has been for the better part of the last six months.
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"The whole epidemic has a molasses feel to it because pregnancy unfolds over the better part of a year," Dr. Curry told me.
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The game was a relative snoozer, with a flat scoreline dragging across the better part of the first 3/4 of the game.
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Instead, after panicking for the better part of an hour and dumping half of my closet on the floor, I call in sick.
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Had I had time to consider my position, I might have concluded that in this situation, compliance was the better part of valor.
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"We spent the better part of the last two years not with each other, missing birthdays and anniversaries and time together," he said.
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Margaret Ron and I did our final puzzle together at Memorial Sloan Kettering, where he'd been for the better part of a month.
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For the better part of 20 minutes, Gupta and Jake Tapper said the American people are not doing enough to flatten the curve.
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If you need proof: MTV's reality show Catfish has spent the better part of a decade uncovering people posing as someone they're not.
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For the better part of a year and a half, the $225 billion acquisition was regarded, more or less, as a fait accompli.
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Even after devoting the better part of three days to "Aus Licht," I would happily have stayed to take it all in again.
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The judge would then have the better part of a minute to cut the feed before observers hear something they're not supposed to.
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Forced to spend the better part of two days together as a group, Logano and Truex at one point apparently discussed the situation.
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Which means a critical mass of Republicans may well decide that discretion is the better part of valor and ultimately opt against repeal.
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The Gambino clan had operated quietly for the better part of the last decade after federal prosecutions decimated its ranks in the 1990s.
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Trump's recovery, specialists say it is hard to know why she would remain in the hospital for the better part of a week.
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He'd been on the lam for the better part of two decades, hiding out in Canada while accruing $559,900 in unpaid child support.
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His sons, also in the FDNY, would spend the better part of the next month digging through ground zero, looking for their father.
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And for the better part of the 21st century, the Knicks have been a virtual home office for creative, dismissive acts of unaccountability.
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But retirement seemed like a legitimate possibility for Dempsey after the chest discomfort that had lingered for the better part of last year.
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I ended up going part-time to be a little more invisible and did even better part-time than I did full-time.
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Grueling training AlMansoori and AlNeyadi have spent the better part of a year undergoing intense training to get themselves ready for this launch.
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The robotic hand itself isn't really new; some variation of that technology has existed for the better part of the last 15 years.
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While wages have picked up a bit recently, they rose by less than inflation for the better part of a decade after 2008.
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Trump has spent the better part of the last three years purging his administration of military and intelligence officials who clashed with him.
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That's unlike say, Booker, who has been a known commodity in national circles for the better part of the last decade (or more).
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The better part of "Song" concerns Dovi and Martin from the age of 9 to their early 20s, when the infamous concert looms.
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But many of them have planted roots in the US for the better part of a decade and also have US-citizen children.
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It's easy, politically, to make that case against the A.C.A., since the Republicans have spent the better part of a decade demonizing it.
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There's a whole generation of young people there who've spent the better part of a decade waiting for their lives to begin again.
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It's certainly the closest I'll ever get to racing around in a sports car costing the better part of half a million dollars.
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In hindsight, it's easy to see how everything that boiled over this year was bubbling away for the better part of the decade.
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Still, we've been used to seeing the actress with longer locks for the better part of a decade, so this is quite a switch!
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Bond funds, which unlike stock funds have been popular for the better part of the year, took in $2.5 billion, according to the ICI.
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" Adelson continues: "But the truth is, I've spent the better part of this last year creating a new normal for the boys and me.
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And this rover, this has been traversing the lunar -- I&aposm sorry -- the Martian surface now for the better part of five, six years.
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The charges against Manafort alone wouldn't likely go to trial for the better part of a year—if they go to trial at all.
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"It's been growing for better part of a decade," said Luis Fernandez, a Wake Forest University ecologist who has studied the issue since 2007.
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Considering The Apprentice was the main thing Trump had going for the better part of a decade, he was steeped in that particular culture.
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In any event, the Moscow meeting with Blane launched Sater's work for the government, which would last for the better part of two decades.
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For the better part of a year, SpaceX has gotten the lion's share of attention when it comes to "mega-constellations" of internet satellites.
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In fact, Snapchat has been in the top 10 on iOS in the U.S. for the better part of its tenure, App Annie notes.
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I'll spend the better part of next year tracking down the rest of Odyssey's collectibles, and I can't wait to get started. Just...what?
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For the better part of her career, Taylor Swift has faced vehement criticism that she hasn't done enough to speak out for political causes.
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Simultaneously, the strongman who has helmed Russia for the better part of two decades endorsed the hacks as being in his country's best interest.
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I'm aggressively saving (usually my entire commission check) because I'll be a full-time intern for the better part of a year in 2018.
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New York (CNN)Big tech companies have spent the better part of two years telling us how they're trying to fix their misinformation problem.
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Convenience, portability, and lack of skin-stabbiness have made pills the most popular way to administer drugs for the better part of medical history.
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For the better part of a year, most GOP reps and senators have looked the other way when talk of Trump's actions came up.
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They won't be able to redeploy them unless the city grants them a special permit, which could take the better part of the month.
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The case is significant because the federal government has made bold claims about Huawei's alleged espionage activities for the better part of a decade.
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It was Day One of training on Nishga Gang, the tribal vessel Hozoji harvested from for the better part of the next six years.
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The Iranian producer Sote (born Ata Ebtekar) has spent the better part of the last two decades composing and lecturing on experimental electronic music.
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Believe it or not, dogs have been fighting beside their human counterparts in military conflicts for the better part of the last 3,000 years.
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WHAT THEY DIDN'T TELL THE GOVERNMENT IS THAT THEIR EXECUTIVES HAVE BEEN COVERING UP THE BRIBERY SCANDAL FOR THE BETTER PART OF FIVE YEARS.
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Congress spent the better part of 2017 duking it out on strictly partisan lines over healthcare reform, only to leave the issue largely unresolved.
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YOKO ONO has been making art for the better part of six decades, never failing to startle, provoke and sometimes get under the skin.
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The people I had spent the better part of a decade covering surprised even me with their callous ability to rationalize a person's death.
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The saga of Mr. Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, has spanned the better part of a decade and a half in Mexico.
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One trader appears to be staking the better part of $2 million on a big move for the iShares China Large-Cap ETF (FXI).
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Their son Rob spent the better part of two decades flying Army Hueys and Black Hawks and training other soldiers how to fly helicopters.
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The late Allan Schwartz, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Rochester, studied college suicide for the better part of two decades.
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A Syrian refugee who was stranded at an airport in Malaysia for the better part of a year has been granted asylum in Canada.
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Mueller, who spent the better part of two years investigating Trump for obstruction of justice, ultimately decided to present evidence rather than a conclusion.
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Rutgers University fish ecologist Malin Pinsky has been studying how fisheries have shifted around the North Atlantic for the better part of a decade.
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The term "old white boys club" has been used to describe the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley for the better part of a decade.
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I went to a cobbler and got them redone for the better part of a Benjamin, but it was undoubtedly worth it for me.
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And that, the Greenes said, was the impetus for spending the better part of five years making sure they both understood the family's finances.
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While the last third of Butterfield's life is tragic, spending the better part of 90 minutes with the man and his music is exhilarating.
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" But, Cupich said, "it is clear that we must take the better part of caution in order to slow the spread of this pandemic.
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And the president gets to end the exchange nodding and smiling, like someone who knows he has gotten the better part of the deal.
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His company has served as a proud partner and payroll services provider of USA Water Polo for the better part of the last decade.
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Last month I spoke to Simon by phone for the better part of an hour, while he was on the road on a tour.
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On Earth, it still takes the better part of a day to get from Australia to Florida, to say nothing of going back again.
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For the better part of a year, the Democratic Party conversation has been a bit like a fickle shopper trying on the latest fashions.
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The senior leadership team is stagnant, having kept a death grip on the top trio of jobs for the better part of a decade.
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I would love to bring features like that back because I would love for Tumblr to be a better part of the open web.
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Clovis had just spent the better part of two hours being peppered with questions about farm policy at the National Press Club in Washington.
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And Warren had a very big one in Las Vegas on Wednesday, when she spent the better part of two hours ripping into Bloomberg.
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In fact, I&aposd been using another Drinkwell model for the better part of the last year prior to receiving the 2-gallon version.
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Careful. If you can ignore the dumb, offensive, search-optimizing title of the compilation, you may lose the better part of a half-hour.
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The billions worth of goodies that have kept their taxes artificially low for the better part of a century would suddenly be in danger.
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For the better part of a generation, corporations have hoovered up your private data and sold it with little to no transparency or accountability.
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The decreasing tensions between Iran and the U.S. allowed stocks to resume the bullish trajectory they've taken for the better part of a year.
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The serial entrepreneur had been in discussions with Pearson for the better part of a year to acquire the company's VR and AR assets.
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But Friends spent the better part of a decade as the number-one comedy on television — and eventually became the number-one show, period.
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The city of Hong Kong has been in turmoil for the better part of the year as pro-democracy protests rage across the city.
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Fox Sports broadcaster Joe Buck has been a reliable face and voice of NFL and MLB games for the better part of two decades.
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That discussion is just getting underway, and the better part of valor is to do what the GND resolution does: say nothing about it.
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But that's never been my experience, and it's probably why I spent the better part of a year thinking something was seriously wrong with me.
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Someone sat next to those bags for the better part of a day and at no point said, "Hey, your luggage absolutely reeks of leeches"?
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For the better part of a year, Bernie Sanders enjoyed a polite if slightly bemused welcome from the non-radical quarters of the Democratic firmament.
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Yugoslavia met Italy in the final and led for the better part of an hour, that man Džajić putting them in front on 32 minutes.
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Naomi Watts, who's been friends with Kidman for the better part of three decades, posted a sweet birthday message to her best friend on Instagram.
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If you spent the better part of the past few months wondering whether you should get bangs, now's the time to indulge your fringe fantasies.
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Converge frontman Jacob Bannon has been releasing solo tracks for the better part of two decades, commiting to the Wear Your Wounds moniker around 2008.
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I've been working at the intersection of technology and political organizing for the better part of a decade, in the Obama 2012 campaign and since.
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I did build out my deck too quickly and have spent the better part of the day paying in jewels to speed up my research.
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And for the better part of a decade, that let me stay connected to incredible music that likely otherwise would have disappeared from my life.
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But having been part of Toronto's DIY community for the better part of the last decade brings with it all sorts of ups and downs.
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It took the better part of a month for anyone to even notice/write about this, so the affected userbase has to be extremely small.
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EditorsNote: Updates with Minnesota's next opponent Minnesota spent the better part of the last few weeks of the regular season on the NCAA Tournament bubble.
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We spent the better part of this week, hypothesizing when the song would actually drop and what — or more likely who — it would be about.
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He had spent the better part of the last two decades trying to forget the man who he said molested him three times a week.
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The commonwealth of Puerto Rico is steeped in more than $70 billion of debt that has been accruing for the better part of a decade.
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At the event, Cuban did what he's done best for the better part of the last year: Take rhetorical aim at the GOP's presidential nominee.
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But for the better part of the last two years, a number of House and Senate Republicans have sidestepped questions about whether they'd support him.
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The team, led by computer science professor Matthias Scheutz, is eager to show off what it's spent the better part of a decade working on.
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In 2013, on her podcast called Kathie Lee and Company, Gifford spent the better part of an hour having a mutual gushfest with Glenn Beck.
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Managers and coaches have such limited overall impact anyway, and this sort of sin-eating is the better part of how they earn their paycheck.
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" Johnson noted from a technical standpoint, the stock has been "stuck sideways for the better part of three years, just stuck in a trading range.
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He was never seen alive again, and authorities have spent the better part of the last three decades investigating thousands of tips, leads and clues.
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NFV and the Tebow thing Software-defined networking (SDN) has taken center stage in the networking industry for the better part of a decade now.
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For the better part of the past decade, grocery stores have been undergoing a slow morph, from stores selling groceries to multi-pronged retail experiences.
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For the better part of two years now, WWE has done an admirable job of pushing its women wrestlers as more than just eye candy.
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It was about setting obstruction of justice traps so for the better part of two years they were hoping the President would fall into it.
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For the better part of a year, the pizza chain had been embroiled in drama after founder John Schnatter made comments construed as racial epithets.
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It wasn't published on an outlet like The Guardian — but Boelter's reports on the subject have been online for the better part of a year.
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On the strength of "7 Rings," Ariana Grande's been sitting pretty atop the Billboard Hot 100 for the better part of the last two months.
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Though the company had spent the better part of the year promoting "healthy conversations," it wasn't much interested in putting the screws on its users.
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"It's been growing for better part of a decade," said Luis Fernandez, a Wake Forest University ecologist who has been studying the issue since 2007.
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If he were to bow to the GOP's demands, The Nine would be The Eight for the better part of two straight Supreme Court terms.
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But now, with drugstore skin care that's better than it's ever been, investing the better part of our paycheck into serums and creams isn't necessary.
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So, one would think that the horrifying defense that team has played for the better part of two decades would get a bit more attention.
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I spent the better part of my time on the Obama campaign working to defeat then Senator Clinton, so I'm no apologist or Hillaryland loyalist.
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Yet the global stock fund growth blunted a pattern of withdrawals for stock funds overall that has lasted the better part of the last year.
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It's taken the better part of two decades for studios to come around to putting this version the Wonder Woman story in front of audiences.
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Its creator, Jonathan Brooks of Milktooth in Indianapolis, claims your friends will think this dish took you the better part of an hour to make.
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He spent the better part of the decade after winning the award in Berlin, where he produced his last works, and later returned to Budapest.
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But for the better part of the past two decades, the establishment wings of both the Republican and Democratic Party have largely been pro-Israel.
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And for the better part of a week, Fox's pro-Trump talk shows have been on high alert for the impending arrival of the migrants.
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With automatic payments, you never have to worry about accidentally missing a due date and getting dinged for the better part of a decade.2.
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For the better part of the last 403 million years, a group of now-extinct marsupials roamed the wilds of what is now eastern Australia.
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Trump is likely to sign the resolution, killing a rule that the coal industry and Republicans had fought for the better part of a decade.
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The fact of the matter is that the Republicans have been trying to "get" Bill Clinton for the better part of a quarter century now.
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The lawmakers have worked on the legislation for the better part of 2017, and it is finally showing signs of gaining steam in the House.
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For the better part of the last quarter century, they pointed out, the House of Representatives has been defined by a winner-take-all mentality.
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The 9th-Gen H-Series processors are based on the 14nm process that Intel has been using for the better part of half a decade.
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Dallas, TX native Shaun Colón has spent the better part of his life worshipping the catalog of San Francisco-based punk label Fat Wreck Chords.
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The short version is that I went there to visit a friend and play tabletop wargames with him for the better part of a week.
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Thomas Edison said, "I should correctly be called a great sponge," because there were 18 patents before Edison, for the better part of a century.
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With a few variations, this silent pass was the unwritten protocol at video rental stores around the US for the better part of two decades.
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When our squad was tasked with defending a compound from attacking forces, it became a bitter siege that lasted the better part of an hour.
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So how does anyone actually fool people into thinking they're a qualified professional who has spent the better part of a decade in medical school?
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"For the better part of a year, we were flying all over the world, taking depositions," Michael Ward, then the general counsel for Targus, recalled.
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The I.O.C. had the better part of two years to figure out this puzzle and to decide which Russians — if any — should compete in Pyeongchang.
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For the better part of five decades, he was the baritone saxophonist and linchpin of one of the most idiosyncratic and influential ensembles in jazz.
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I've followed the art world for the better part of a decade and I've noticed only lately a sense that change is in the air.
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Mr. Sotomayor had spent the better part of the previous evening in her apartment fixing a toilet flange one of his workers had accidentally broken.
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Often framed as a battle between culture and progress, the legal fight for Maunakea has been ongoing for the better part of the last decade.
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From credit cards to consumer banking, Goldman Sachs has spent the better part of the past few years expanding beyond its trading and dealmaking roots.
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Jonathan Burnham, the senior vice president and publisher of HarperCollins, has been in a children's literature book club for the better part of a decade.
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Having used that Char-Griller for the better part of a decade, I can tell you that it was one damn fine piece of hardware.
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By comparison, the Clinton trial in 1999 lasted five weeks, and in 1868, the Senate took the better part of three months to try Johnson.
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For the better part of nine decades, he has been a master of the New York feud, over literature, politics, ball fields or social status.
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Forsvarsdepartementet For the better part of the last decade, the US Defense Department's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has epitomized government waste and dysfunction.
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Verizon has spent the better part of the last decade mired in privacy scandals and lobbying the government to ignore or legalize its bad behavior.
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"Crude oil prices have gotten knocked around by the dollar for the better part of two months now," Kilduff told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday.
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In the end, he demonstrated an understanding that winning ultimately means forging alliances across regions, and that bipartisanship may be the better part of valor.
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But he refused to say whether Senate Republicans had mistreated Judge Garland by refusing to consider his nomination for the better part of a year.
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Freelancing is his way, but it's hard to go too off-topic in a speech that usually runs for the better part of an hour.
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The presumptive Republican nominee spent the better part of last week criticizing Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over the current lawsuit against Trump University.
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For the better part of two decades the newswires have been filled with horror stories about the dumpster fire that passes for Comcast customer service.
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His debut feud on the main WWE roster was against Dolph Ziggler, who's been spinning his wheels for the better part of five years now.
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For the better part of a century, the Inversand Company scooped a dark greenish sand called marl from the quarry for use in water treatment plants.
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Having grown up in Northern California and spent the better part of a decade as a food writer, I've done a fair amount of wine tasting.
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Juicero has been the delight of Silicon Valley for the better part of a year, as backers excitedly threw more than $120 million into the startup.
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Given the huge deductibles these plans carry, many people will have to shell out the better part of ten grand before their insurance really kicks it.
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It took the better part of three years once Obama's health law was passed to launch its major coverage expansion, and that was anything but smooth.
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Eternal babyfaces Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson had been friends for the better part of a decade and they were as pure as good guys come.
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"With Tesla, we are witnessing a scale of on-the-road car population growth not seen since in the better part of a century," Jonas said.
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Jones has been flirting with a Twitter suspension for the better part of the last month, culminating in a one-week "time-out" in late August.
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It took Canada the better part of a decade to nail down a free trade deal with the European Union, which went into effect on Thursday.
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Google's Nest Hub (formerly known as the Home Hub) is still $240 over on eBay, as it has been for the better part of a week.
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I lived with roommates for the better part of my 30 years, so this helped make me feel like I was making more financially sound decisions.
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For the better part of eight decades, Rikers Island Jail has been a glaring symbol of the most negative aspects of New York City's justice system.
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And that's all before getting into the systematic devaluing and ignoring of stellar performances from people of color for the better part of a century now.
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As a small business owner for the better part of a decade, I've learned firsthand that time is my most valuable resource — yes, even over money.
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In December, media research firm MoffettNathanson found that live news network ratings were down "in the -10% to -20% range" for the better part of 2018.
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For the better part of two decades, philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris has been a popular — and controversial — critic of organized religion, and in particular Islam.
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The so-called bond vigilantes, who have been missing from the market for the better part of a generation, could be making a return appearance soon.
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"The pressure points in Europe have been flagging bearish conditions for the better part of the past two months," said James Stanley, market strategist at DailyFX.
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For the better part of a decade, soaring wages have nudged companies, particularly those in labour-intensive industries such as garment-making, towards poorer Asian countries.
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Waymo has been working on self-driving cars for the better part of a decade and is already testing an automated ride-hailing service in Phoenix.
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Wells had been living in a vehicle for the better part of two decades, proselytizing the virtues of the lifestyle to anyone who'd click and listen.
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For one thing, Dish has been promising to build a wireless network for the better part of the last decade with little to show for it.
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But for Oakland residents, the restaurant and its owner, Marco Senghor, have been an essential part of the community for the better part of three decades.
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Andy Greenberg spent the better part of a year getting the full story of the NotPetya code, which took down the world's cyber infrastructure in 2017.
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If it feels like Yahoo has been in this state of perpetual crisis for the better part of the last decade, well, that's not entirely wrong.
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For the better part of the last two decades, he's been able to make timeless music that defies genres, but Man of the Woods isn't that.
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He has crisscrossed the state for the better part of the past four years in his capacity as the number two Democrat elected in state government.
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Alternatively, they can finally respond to the pop-up message that has been nagging recalcitrant users to do so for the better part of a year.
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For the better part of the last decade, one of the biggest demands from people in the market for a premium smartphone was a great camera.
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For the better part of five months, Democrats in both chambers, along with a coalition of liberal protesters, fought to wrest defections from the GOP line.
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Saying goodbye was difficult, but removing a life we had both lived online for the better part of a decade proved to be close to impossible.
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The issue of moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem has been a recurring theme in American politics for the better part of 2900 years.
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Ngerulmud, Palau—Talk of the trade conflict between the United States and China has captured international headlines for the better part of the past two weeks.
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"Mitch Daniels dominated Indiana politics for the better part of 10 years," said Michael D. McDaniel, who was the Indiana Republican chairman from 19903 until 2002.
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It's impossible to be in business for the better part of two centuries without doing a lot of things right, including keeping up with the times.
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Stock mutual funds, used extensively by retail investors, also continued a streak of net outflows that has lasted the better part of the last two years.
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In fact, it would directly conflict with the more favorable turnout projections we have observed for Democrats for the better part of the past two years.
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Founded by a team of Hyderabad cardiologists in the 224s, Care has been a darling of private equity investors for the better part of 27 years.
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DOD has been developing hypersonic systems for the better part of the past two decades, and thus far has virtually nothing to show for its efforts.
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Jonathan Cheban, friend of Kim Kardashian, spent the better part of his birthday weekend leaving mean comments on an a fellow food blogger's page, Sophisticated Vegan.
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After consistently ringing up high-side surprises for the better part of a year in recent months, the tables look like they've turned on Canadian employment.
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The movie spends the better part of an hour on death row (where, her taste for jazz undiminished, Barbara listens to Mr. Mulligan in her cell).
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There are no significant sports rights available right now, with most major leagues locked into massive TV contracts for the better part of the next decade.
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Once, we are forced to stop along a westbound path for the better part of an hour while another group, barely audible, moves southward up ahead.
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But Matthiesen said Lyft has been working on this new version of its autonomous ambitions for the better part of the last year and a half.
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Thanks to the wildfires that have devastated California for the better part of two weeks, the state's air has been filled with spectacular amounts of smoke.
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Despite looking young, he's in his late 30s and has been going out in the UK gay-nightclub scene for the better part of two decades.
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For the better part of Game of Thrones, Daenerys was away from most danger and had the time to build herself up against very weak opponents.
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Unrwa was initially intended to be a temporary agency, but it has continued to provide support for Palestinian refugees for the better part of six decades.
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Hudson River Park, a leafy, breezy stretch along Manhattan's lower shore, has offered a blissful respite from crowded streets for the better part of two decades.
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"It was just shocking — so shocking it took me the better part of the first dive to take it in and comprehend what happened," she said.
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For Mr. Kelly, Amazon's decision validated a plan that he had been selling for the better part of a year: revitalizing Crystal City and its neighbors.
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He seems to love carbohydrates; in his dressing room after the taping, I watched him consume the better part of an economy bag of SweeTart Ropes.
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The work took the better part of a year, at a cost of about $400 a square foot, and they returned just in time for Thanksgiving.
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It was a stunning sequence, not just to Biles but also to the group that has been chasing her for the better part of a decade.
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For the better part of a year, I roamed the country, living in monasteries, going on 10-day silent meditation retreats and learning from Buddhist teachers.
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Indeed, the most stinging loss may belong to the Murdoch family, which has been fighting for control of Sky for the better part of a decade.
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Indeed, some spend the better part of a decade as friends or romantic partners before marrying, according to new research by eHarmony, another online dating site.
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Even to copy a relatively short paper, "Proc Nat Ac Sci"—"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"—could take the better part of an hour.
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I've had an earlier version of this microwave for the better part of a decade, at least, and have yet to come across a single issue.
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It was a daylight shootout on the streets of Los Angeles that lasted the better part of an hour — and it played out live on television.
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I spent the better part of this week on location in Las Vegas, Nevada, for CNN, providing insight from my position as a Law Enforcement Analyst.
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With App Smart ending with this final column, here are the apps that have persisted on my home screen for the better part of five years.
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I'VE SPENT -- INCLUDING THE CAMPAIGN, I HAVE SPENT THE BETTER PART OF 2 AND A HALF YEARS, ALMOST THREE YEARS, PROMOTING, DEVELOPING HIS PRO-GROWTH POLICIES.
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Back in October, Verizon announced it would be shutting down Yahoo Groups, a community discussion forum that has existed for the better part of 113 years.
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The crucial vote on Tuesday will decide the fate of a hotly contested House seat that has remained vacant for the better part of a year.
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For the better part of five years, Mr. Trump claimed that President Obama was not born in America and that his investigators had evidence of it.
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People have waited the better part of a decade now for BMW to follow up on the i3 electric SUV and its hybrid i8 sports car.
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As the clock neared midnight, Graham was surrounded by the better part of the Democratic caucus, making an impassioned plea to Schumer to prevent the shutdown.
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She's spent the better part of a month, together with her engineering partner, hunched over her workbench trying to build the fastest drone in the world.
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I've spent the better part of the past 12 years thinking about how we interpret election results, and from that perspective, Tuesday was a big night.
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There are lots of allegations of sexual assault that's been rippling throughout the venture capital community for the better part of the past couple of weeks.
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Tillerson, for the better part of a year, didn't even opt to ask for money available to him to counter Russian propoganda -- to lawmakers' great irritation.
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He was deported to Peru less than a month after being detained, she said, having spent the better part of his life in the United States.
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After toying with the idea for the better part of four years, Harley-Davidson this week showed off its first electric motorcycle at the Milan Motorcycle Show.
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Qualcomm and Apple had spent the better part of more than two years engaged in a legal skirmish over outsized royalty payments, patent infringements and IP theft.
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Chiptune has been a part of LA's underground music culture for the better part of the past two decades, but has always struggled to stay above water.
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Even President Barack Obama, who spent the better part of the past year blasting Trump, said the President-elect should have a chance to build his team.
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Google had spent the better part of 2016 reworking its translation tool to be powered by AI—and in doing so, it had created something unnervingly powerful.
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Leibel used a knife in a "prolonged attack" in which Kasian was "alive for the better part of the mutilation and mayhem," prosecutor Tannaz Mokayef told jurors.
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For the better part of a decade, Uber raised unprecedented sums of capital from venture capitalists, celebrities and Saudi Arabia to bulldoze into markets around the world.
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Spending the better part of five years caught up in the meat-grinder gears of the superhero industrial complex has to do certain things to a director.
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Like most Targaryens, Daenerys' icy-white hair is her defining feature, which means that Clarke has spent the better part of the last decade wearing platinum wigs.
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Estrada has spent the better part of the last decade helping Silicon Valley companies that are often working on new transportation options navigate sometimes murky regulatory waters.
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I've played the part of Jason in "Hand to God" (and his satanic, fabric alter-ego Tyrone) off and on for the better part of five years.
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Pennsylvania Republicans flying blind Donald Trump has spent the better part of a week complaining that Colorado Republicans never got a proper say in allotting their delegates.
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It has taken me the better part of my life to start realizing that there is nothing funny, or shameful, or less than miraculous, about my body.
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The storm has been gathering strength for the better part of a year but its intensity over the past couple of weeks has caught many off-guard.
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In a week, however, she'll board the fully-loaded tour bus—which she Snapchats with gusto—in which she'll be spending the better part of the summer.
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Washington spent the better part of the year talking tough to tech companies and threatening a crackdown on the wanton collection, dissemination, and monetization of personal data.
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Masquerader began life the better part of a decade ago as your standard party thrash band, complete with requisite songs about zombie hordes and mosh pit commandos.
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Eventually, with a little luck, there's elation, as a boss that's given you fits for the better part of an hour finally succumbs to your sword blows.
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The world largest economies have been engaged in a trade war for the better part of a year, raising concern over global growth and thus pressuring industrials.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Cinematographer Sean Price Williams has been revered by critics and indie film fans for the better part of the last decade.
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My grandmother has spent the better part of the last year in and out of the hospital for a number of maladies, some more serious than others.
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It had the element of the unexpected; there was a run where there was a genuinely fun surprise every Monday for the better part of a year.
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But I had a blast when with Mahindra's connected electric scooter at this year's CES, and I've spent the better part of 2016 reminiscing on that experience.
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These skills come at a steep cost to students, who often spend the better part of their careers paying off the debt required to access job opportunities.
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"It's a ticking time bomb to simply have the better part of 10,000 detainees, many of them foreign fighters," the official, told reporters in a conference call.
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For the better part of the past three decades, the medical and development communities fought tuberculosis, among other killer infections, by focusing on quashing a single disease.
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Nevertheless, the Scottish tribes fought back for the better part of two decades, and the Romans eventually gave up and pulled their troops back to Hadrian's Wall.
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The New York Mets spent the better part of April frustrated about their inability to score runs before watching the bats explode over the last 10 days.
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But the better part of this nation has not been affected, does not feel threatened, and has never committed to the war on terrorism after 9/11.
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Taylor, a career foreign service officer, said he'd spent the better part of the summer battling a "shadow foreign policy" led by Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney.
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Today that operating space has largely been based in Iraq and Syria, but I've been warning about the Libyan presence for the better part of two years.
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They might as well have been foaled in a stall themselves, seeing as how they spent the better part of their lives with runners in their backyards.
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But as someone who's been working adjacent to the adult industry for the better part of a decade, this push towards a verified internet gives me pause.
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They no longer boast the kind of stacked roster that racked up championships for the better part of a decade, but they're probably better than you think.
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"After all, the FOMC is unquestionably willing to let inflation run hotter after spending the better part of a decade trying to ignite those flames," he said.
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The announcement comes just a week after Hefner passed away at 91, but the film's reportedly been in the works for the better part of a decade.
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Though Twin Flames suggested she could make as much as "six figures" this way, she said she made about $500 over the better part of a year.
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The traveling Brooklyn nightlife event has been bringing in some top-notch DJs for the better part of five years to help usher in their underground raves.
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This was the most successful car company in the world for the better part of a century and the most valuable company for a period of time.
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In addition to spending a better part of my youth in prison, I am not allowed to return to my native country, where my ailing parents live.
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But early last fall, Jeff Bezos sought out a 36-year old entrepreneur named R.J. Scaringe and spent the better part of a day in Plymouth, Mich.
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Opinion Columnist For the better part of two years, Donald Trump and his partisans did everything they could to denigrate and discredit Robert Mueller and his investigation.
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His departure leaves the ride-hail company that has spent the better part of 20153 fighting public scandals without a COO, CFO, CMO and, now, a CEO.
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When I realized that I helped create a nightmare vision of an unchallenged, sustainable fascist world order encapsulating the better part of the galaxy, I stopped playing.
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With his round face and Cheshire cat grin, he sat in front of a video game based on "The Simpsons" for the better part of an hour.
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Outlander Claire's blue riding habit has been her uniform for the better part of six episodes, and it has served as a metaphor for the season itself.
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These humble individuals know the issues inside and out, and they have sacrificed the better part of their lives to make our country a slightly better place.
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Anderson begins at the very beginning, with the future Oklahoma City sitting at the bottom of an ancient ocean for the better part of 500 million years.
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Ms. Shane said she'd spent the better part of the last five decades in Los Angeles, where she first moved to be with her mother, Jessie Shane.
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He had just returned from New York, where he spent the better part of the spring shooting "Pose," Ryan Murphy's new show about the 1980s vogueing scene.
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But the 80-year-old, Yorkshire-born artist David Hockney has been bringing a cheerfully mercenary élan to figurative painting for the better part of six decades.
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Alienware m15 Amazon's Echo Buds truly wireless earphones have been discounted for the better part of two weeks, which is far longer than I would have assumed.
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If they were just to do their work all day, and keep looking up, finding the other, their work would take a better part of the day.
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I mean, look, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders vs.
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Reports of talks between the two go back as far as 2015, but Singolda said they have actually been talking for the better part of a decade.
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Police fired teargas and used water cannons to disperse protesters for the better part of the morning until calm was restored in the area in the afternoon.
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Which goes directly counter to what President Donald Trump (and others) have been saying about the investigation for the better part of the last two years. 2.
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For the better part of a decade, if not longer, China has been rapaciously pillaging the core intellectual property of American companies, both at home and abroad.
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With newer, more marketable forms of the genre taking centerstage for the better part of the decade, street music has been demoted back to its underground roots.
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A map that takes up the better part of one exhibit wall shows the range of the majority of objects from the show: from China to Spain.
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But throughout all this their mother Harriet refused to accept that they were gone, and spent the better part of three decades trying to get them back.
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To answer that, Yau spent the better part of a day cutting, pasting and analyzing publicly posted menu information from 10 of the most popular fast food chains.
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For the better part of a decade, liberals have gazed upon conservatives with perverse glee as they've limited their ranks to an ever shrinking number of True Scotsmen.
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Matthew Hogg, who has spent the better part of his life trying to cope with auto-brewery syndrome, said that the condition can be miserable to deal with.
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She exits the room, leaving me to spend the better part of the next 20 minutes contemplating the sequence of events and decisions that has led me here.
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I've held onto a Facebook account for more than a decade, but for the better part of the last few years, I've successfully refrained from using it much.
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His family didn't hear from him for the better part of 14 years, until he resurfaced in 1989, just in time to say goodbye to his dying mother.
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She and Damon Sauer have spent the better part of three years photographing the markers and mapping the satellites that pass over them for Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks.
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For the better part of two decades, it felt like nobody remembered that Titanic was the top-grossing film of the 1990s with a take of $659 million.
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Though Sanders has spent the better part of this primary with a significant number of rivals coming after his record, Buttigieg has only recently been feeling the heat.
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Elnashai in particular was known to make women uncomfortable, said a woman who worked on and off at the theater for the better part of the last decade.
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And we reported yesterday on how the White House took the better part of a working day to publicly clarify when the 90-day truce with China began.
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But where the former was first and foremost teen romance and luxury porn, the latter is primarily a horror movie stretched over the better part of a decade.
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Bredesen has been out of politics for the better part of a decade, but the last time he did run here, he won 69 percent of the vote.
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Editor-in-chief Holly Brockwell heads up the magazine for the "queens of the drone age," having written about gadgetry for the better part of a decade prior.
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Unlike many other elaborate dining concepts, though, Wintjes and Meursing have been pursuing their own peculiar blend of food and art for the better part of a decade.
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Keller told VICE that Taylor spent the better part of a year welding together a life-size spaceship replica from spare parts he collected from the local dump.
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That's especially true when a player might spend the better part of 15 to 20 minutes without seeing another human only to unsuspectedly die in an unexplained fashion.
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Installing over a dozen unique, immersive artworks took Meow Wolf the better part of a year, and its members had to learn the necessary skills on the job.
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IntimissimiIf the name looks a bit familiar, that's probably because Intimissimi has spent the better part of the last couple of years heavily investing in a U.S. expansion.
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The state did not distinguish itself sending out corrections, either, taking the better part of an hour to send out another mass text confirming no such missile existed.
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The two sides are expected to hold meetings throughout the better part of that day, and some form of statement or signing is likely at the summit's conclusion.
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The fact that the franchise hasn't come to a close means that this character's been living without resolution for the better part of four decades, and it shows.
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It took the better part of three nights to move all of the weed, from getting it off of the boats to getting it out into the market.
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Quite independently of this column, which I've been mulling for the better part of a month, Ronda Rousey has recently talked up how great his return would be.
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The company's probably best known for its internet radios these days, but the company has been in the home audio game for the better part of three decades.
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By sheer coincidence, Starr's investigation dragged on for the better part of Clinton's two terms, caroming off in every conceivable direction after the Whitewater inquiry turned up bupkis.
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So that whole attitude failed gloriously, culminating in a drunken showdown with a guy who I allowed to string me along for the better part of a year.
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U.S. stocks have taken a beating for the better part of this year on increasing concerns of a sustained slowdown in global economic growth and falling oil prices.
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Read more: San Francisco's $2.2 billion transit center finally reopened after a cracked beam kept it closed for the better part of a year — take a look around
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In three-and-a-half years, you breezed in and undermined what a century of FBI agents spent the better part of their adult lives trying to protect.
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The Vitamix 750 is a professional-grade blender built to last the better part of a decade, and Vitamix's 7-year warranty is enough to attest to that.
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The ride-hail company, which is valued at close to $70 billion, has spent the better part of 2017 reckoning with its take-no-prisoners approach to business.
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They hassled Xian for the better part of this month, alleging, among other false statements, that he was not Muslim and therefore shouldn't be running a halal restaurant.
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For the better part of 33 years, Valdemar was tasked with combating LA's Gangs, which is why Police Magazine now uses him as an expert on the matter.
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I was out again the next day, the divers were there, [and] we stayed there for the better part of the day then gave up and went home.
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Jeffries has spent the better part of her adulthood recounting the legend, for she inherited both the recipe (which is secret) and the family lore (which is unverifiable).
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I have been a part-time driver for Uber and Lyft for the better part of a year now, and in that time, I have learned a lot.
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The entire work was written and drawn by the mangaka (manga artist) Toshio Ban, who worked as an assistant to Tezuka for the better part of 15 years.
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The loss on Friday was also embedded in the very way that Virginia has played basketball under Coach Tony Bennett for the better part of the past decade.
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William Singer, who worked in the college counseling business for the better part of three decades, built a national brand appealing to parents' worries about their children's prospects.
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In 5.203, the Baltimore Orioles, who had been losers for the better part of a generation, went 93-69—a neat reversal of their record the previous year.
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As a mechanic who specializes in these cars, Pollitz has helped restore a number of cars that have spent the better part of their life on the road.
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And I am acutely aware of the hurdles that young women face in this business and have spent the better part of 20 years advocating for women journalists.
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For the better part of the campaign season, Enquirer front pages blared sensational headlines about Mr. Trump's rivals from eye-level racks at supermarket checkout lanes across America.
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I had spent the better part of the previous seven years working for Republican members of Congress before making the leap to start my own public relations firm.
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Dr. Uhlenbeck is a professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin, where she spent the better part of her career (having declined a professorship at Harvard).
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The standup portion kills, but everyone knows the better part will happen at the host's desk, where Johnny Carson, pulling on a cigarette, will gamely set him up.
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At the same time, many of the ideas Sanders has been taking around the country for the better part of the last five years appear popular among voters.
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"I've spent the better part of four years trying to understand where government gets its revenue, where it spends its revenue," Mr. Ballmer told the audience on Thursday.
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In the U.S., the gospel of free trade has been a tenet of the "neoliberal consensus" that has guided foreign policy for the better part of three decades.
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Microsoft has spent the better part of a year working on dark mode for Outlook and more, and it's not as simple as flicking a switch in software.
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Mr. Morton was not Tesla's top accountant; that is Deepak Ahuja, the chief financial officer, who has been at the company for the better part of a decade.
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Still, for all the team's brilliance both individually and in qualifying, Brazil has looked nothing like "Brazil" for the better part of three hours of soccer in Russia.
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For the better part of an hour as it neared Fort Myers, winds that earlier had seemed to fluctuate wildly became far steadier and stronger, spitting rain violently.
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Every cell of my sympathetic nervous system was firing all of the time, the better part of my childhood spent in a perpetual state of fight or flight.
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"Everything has changed in the past few years," said Undem, who has been researching public attitudes about abortion access for the better part of the last 19 years.
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Today, if one of our employees stays inside a pair of noise-canceling AirPods for the better part of a day, I don&apost think twice about it.
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But Wheeler is largely a known quantity to the Senate, having served at EPA for the better part of a year and already being confirmed as deputy administrator.
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It made no sense, politically, for Robert Kennedy to spend the better part of a day — April 16, 1968 — at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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Mr. Seidman said the project had been "a major effort," between the creation of the content and product development that had taken the better part of a year.
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For the better part of the last decade, the United States has been trying furiously to achieve the first goal while giving only cursory effort to the second.
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But after using the Note 103 for the better part of the past two weeks, I've determined that it's little more than an S10 with an S Pen.
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Doing any one thing for 10 to 15 hours a day over the better part of two years would drive anyone to seek out some much-needed change.
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Having spent the better part of 30 years in Japan, I'm ever more impressed by how profoundly primal beliefs and atavistic rites underlie even the sleekest Harajuku fashions.
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After witnessing the devastation of rival armies, Torrhen Stark and his Northern host decided that discretion was the better part of valor and chose to bend the knee.
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While Mr. Nordey, who is alone onstage for the better part of two hours, spares no effort, a director other than himself might have curbed his actorly mannerisms.
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With the NHL schedule on hold for the better part of a week, there's not much point in doing a new round of the regular weekly power rankings.
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We also have the better part of a season of Game of Thrones ahead of us, not to mention plenty of other TV and even a few forthcoming albums.
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The publication also reports that, for the better part of the past three decades, the title of world's richest woman has bounced between L'Oréal's Bettencourt and Walmart's Walton families.
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Taylor worked in the department for the better part of two decades before leaving in 2017, and he served as the Defense Department's top lawyer from 2015 to 2016.
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And that's not even taking into account the cleanliness of the tub itself—which, let's be honest, most people haven't properly scrubbed for the better part of two months.
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For the better part of a year Trump has heralded the benefits of his tariffs, claiming that foreign companies and countries pay billions of dollars into the US Treasury.
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Image: APFor the better part of the last three years, the introduction of the most powerful gene editing technology ever invented has been marred by a nasty patent battle.
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Spearheaded by one of humanity's purest beacons of light, vocalist and guitarist Mike Scheidt, Oregon's YOB have towered over doom metal for the better part of 20 years now.
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He was a federal prosecutor, general counsel to the governor of Utah, and has served his home state for the better part of a decade in the U.S. Senate.
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Well, having spent the better part of a week in Silicon Valley to cover Google I/O, let me tell you, Uber is not one of these consistent operators.
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Not that the look is completely unchanged from the model that's been on sale for the better part of two decades, but the familiar exterior hides some new details.
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The technology he attributed this to was called "speech to meaning," a back-end tool that the company has been working on for the better part of a decade.
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Ric Marshall, senior corporate governance analyst at MSCI, which licenses E.S.G. indexes to fund managers, has been watching socially responsible investing for the better part of a quarter-century.
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He finished his studies in 1981, and spent the better part of a decade working as a beat reporter covering finance and the petroleum industry for outlets in California.
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I spent the better part of my afternoon blasting enemies in Star Fox 643 and laughing at Peppy's hijinx before I remembered I actually needed to review the thing.
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"I have been at this for a better part of 35 years, I can't remember a time we were ever competing against UTX (United Technologies)," Raytheon International's Harris said.
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Sanitation and Health Rights in India is the fruit of work that 29-year-old Anoop Jain has struggled with for the better part of the last six years.
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Kushner was one of a number of White House aides that had been working in the administration without a permanent security clearance for the better part of a year.
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And in a truly surreal pre-fight press conference before Friday's bout, he spent the better part of 30 seconds yelling at Mr. 5000 about their respective testicle sizes.
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Its rival Lyft, which has spent the better part of the year quietly taking advantage of Uber's misfortunes, has followed suit, matching many of Uber's newer features in lockstep.
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Trump has spent the better part of a week verbally attacking Congressman Elijah Cummings and his majority-black district in Maryland in one of his increasingly regular racist rants.
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Some version of this fantastical claim has been dropped into the news cycle with the regularity of a super blood wolf moon for the better part of a century.
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Obama's hands would be tied, and we would roll into the new administration of President Nincompoop, and that person may decide that discretion is the better part of valor.
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It's saturated the news for the better part of a week — largely through POTUS' own special skill of keeping a single story on life support across multiple news cycles.
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"I've been using Cetaphil products for the better part of the past 10 years," Brosnahan tells us while perched on a couch in her hotel suite in downtown Manhattan.
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The CEO spent the better part of the hour-long presentation recounting Tesla's achievements building factories, charging infrastructure and luxury electric vehicles while battling electric car opponents and skepticism.
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As a result, it may also be time to explore potential demand for compact trucks, something has been available to US consumers for the better part of a decade.
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Though she's been separated from Chris Martin for the better part of two years, Gwyneth Paltrow has told Glamour that the former couple have yet to actually get divorced.
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This lasted for the better part of an hour, till we reached the coffee shop, where the riders commanded a table and the kid hung back on the sidewalk.
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Jurors in Brooklyn federal court have spent the better part of the last month receiving below minimum wage to contemplate the infamous personality of millionaire Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli.
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Though Uber has spent the better part of its driverless PR efforts on promoting its semi-autonomous Volvos, it appears its driverless trucking efforts are a bit further along.
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Trump strolled out of the White House and over to the North Lawn to chat with "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy for the better part of 30 minutes.
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This cycle would continue for the better part of a year, and each time Allin came back he would up the amount of violence he was willing to endure.
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Five-run eighth sends Yankees past Red Sox NEW YORK — For the better part of 22 23/23 hours Friday night, it seemed grim for the New York Yankees.
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The Blair Witch Project is my favorite horror flick, and revisiting the same woods that put me off camping for the better part of a decade was a lot.
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He left his hometown of Atlanta, broke the tour cycle that he'd been on for the better part of a decade, and took himself to a cabin near Nashville.
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"It's a leftover bean, a second-rate bean that's been lying around in storage for the better part of 20 years, because nobody else wanted it," Janssen shot back.
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Lead vocalist Andrew Falkous has that stand-up's streak, weather-beaten and ambivalently nihilistic, and he's been honing it, stretching it out, for the better part of two decades.
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And here's a simple truth I've been meaning to say for the better part of a year: "Lucky Peach Presents 101 Easy Asian Recipes" is an excellent, excellent cookbook.
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"That's not our food," said Mr. Medrano, who has spent the better part of a decade defining his cuisine, inspiring a growing number of Texas Mexicans in the process.
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After that, I spent the better part of about five years working on a PhD on this very topic of trying to model the emergence of an infectious disease.
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But General Motors' plan to cut 14,000 jobs and shutter five factories reinforces other recent indications that the better part of the expansion is now in the rearview mirror.
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They were dating on the beach basically for the entire time that they were there and then her and Connor were together for the better part of a week.
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What's important here is that 133 unnamed people have feelings, and that they spent the better part of two years talking about them in interviews that we can't read.
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"We have put our offices in predominantly Latino communities, and we've been on the ground for the better part of a year," says Sanders's California communications director Anna Bahr.
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Collins and his wife Zelzah Baez put most of their possessions in storage and spent the better part of a year living out of their truck, which they owned.
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The Colorado sales representative spent the better part of 2019 being branded the supervillain of Bachelor in Paradise after finding himself in the center of a the island's drama.
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Clinton largely ignored him for the better part of 2015, allowing some problematic parts of Sanders' record for Democrats -- most notably his voting record on guns -- to go unnoticed.
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Both sides remain far from an agreement on a number of key issues, with trade negotiations in stop-start mode for the better part of the last 18 months.
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I mean, look, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 257 with Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump.
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The ruling, while expected, leaves undecided the long-term fate of the man who has been a dominating force in Pakistani politics for the better part of three decades.
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Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham plans to seat 12 jurors and 12 alternates in a selection process that could last the better part of two weeks.
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For the better part of a decade, starting in the mid-2000s, much of Britain's political discourse revolved around whether it was acceptable to describe poor people as chavs.
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Now, six years later, we'll do $20 million in sales, and the better part is, we'll do $8 million or $9 million in profits that'll be distributed to me!
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For the better part of a decade, drama linked to Russia's broad doping apparatus has cast a dark shadow of doubt over some of the world's biggest sports competitions.
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For the better part of three decades, Mr. Barr has been known in conservative legal circles as a sharp, tight-lipped lawyer who embodied the Reagan and Bush eras.
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But how did Sony let Google become the front-runner in cloud gaming to begin with, after having the better part of a decade to freely build it out?
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The nations, including Canada and Mexico, signed the renamed Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership in Santiago after spending the better part of the last year reworking the deal.
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Customers don't want to submit themselves to one salesperson to haggle with, then to a closer and finally to a finance manager, surrendering the better part of a day.
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For Els, the loss was especially difficult to digest because he has spent the better part of his professional playing career running headlong into the wall that is Woods.
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WASHINGTON — It was a mystery that gripped Washington for the better part of two weeks, filled with clandestine meetings at the White House, classified intelligence documents and confidential sources.
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The record took shape in late 2014 inside Greenpoint's Figure 8 studio, where the band spent the better part of a year working with Run Fast producer Eli Crews.
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He has produced a multitude of champions, started the first Muay Thai association in Canada, and has promoted amateur fights for the better part of the last fifteen years.
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We don't meaningfully restrict them for brand-name drugs that were recently developed, giving them a patented monopoly that lasts for the better part of a decade or more.
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One of the first people I met was Russ Bengtson, a senior editor who's been writing, wearing, and thinking critically about sneakers for the better part of 73 years.
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It became even more taxing when I took my own stats into consideration: At 27-years-old, I've been in the dating game for the better part of a decade.
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She spent the better part of the last decade and about $1 million in cleanup fees, and that does not count the additional $1 million or more in lost rent.
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Take Jennifer Aniston, who has spent the better part of two decades, through two marriages and divorces, battling news stories and rumors about her ability or desire to have kids.
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As these items appear arbitrary, if not superfluous, the rhino secures the better part of a viewer's attention, to which mine responded with the notion of a giant piggy bank.
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The moe culture that permeated anime for the better part of several years meant that many anime-influenced Japanese role-playing games, like the Tales series, had similarly moe designs.
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Bunyadi – opening Saturday at a 'secret' location in south London for the better part of three months, calls itself "London's first naked food experience," and operates a clothing-optional policy.
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I doubt many people will want to fork out several hundred dollars for a set of headphones that do what your phone is already, for the better part, efficient at.
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This may be due in part, according to the firm, because news network ratings have been down in the -10% to -20% range for the better part of this year.
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Their actions, rather than their abuse or abusers, would become the source of scandal — an attitude that persisted, more or less unchanged, for the better part of the next century.
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One way Facebook responded to increasing public pressure was to shake up its inner circle of top executives, which had remained largely unchanged for the better part of a decade.
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The reality star shared an unprecedented group photo of 23 photographers — the better part of Paris' working paparazzi — captioning it with red and blue heart emojis and a French flag.
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After spending the better part of the week dealing with endlessly rebooting Uconnect infotainment systems, Fiat Chrysler customers across the Northeast are finally seeing their cars mostly return to normal.
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A future that me, and many Americans who put their faith in science, have been staring at in bewilderment, denial, and abject terror for the better part of a year.
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Grant, a frequent critic of the Federal Reserve, blamed central banks for a "huge distortion" of interest rates because they pushed them down for the better part of 10 years.
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For the better part of two years, Zuckerberg dealt with the fallout stemming from the revelation that his platform was used by foreign agents to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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For the better part of the last few years, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has been embroiled in a war of words and money with Herbalife, a multilevel marketing company.
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Former CIA and NSA boss Michael Hayden has been making the claim for the better part of the last decade, yet substantive, public evidence remains consistently just out of reach.
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For many people it isn't, argues the New York musician Nicky Mao, who's spent the better part of the last decade making shattered and surreal electronic music as Hiro Kone.
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We then spend the better part of an hour installing this massive painting of primary colored dots, which might as well have been dogs playing poker, over some banker's desk.
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For the better part of a decade, American businesses have been burdened by excessive regulation and have been strained by expenses including fighting frivolous litigation or paying for mandated healthcare.
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This week is an inflection point for the image of these three internet platforms that have been held up as pinnacles of innovation for the better part of a decade.
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She spends the better part of the year traveling all over the country, working closely with chefs, designing custom cocktail menus, and training bartenders for high-end hotels and restaurants.
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Nobody wanted to be the one member of Congress standing in the way of delivering on a campaign promise the party has made for the better part of a decade.
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For the better part of the 103s, the halftime show seemed to be a stopover for your dad's favorite act on its way to headlining the Old Folks County Fair.
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So that's exactly what we tried to do that while sipping on cups of coffee for the better part of an hour—to find out exactly drives Mercure's fantastical compositions.
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Jim Andelman Jim Andelman Bonfire may be a new flag, but the founding partners at the firm have been investing in Los Angeles for the better part of two decades.
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After spending the better part of a day exploring the museums, we headed toward Oman and the Musandam Peninsula, but not without one final reminder of the emirate's Islamic ways.
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The debate over what to do with DACA recipients opened up an immigration-related can of worms that has simmered in the background for the better part of two years.
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After having been a student and a technical instructor at MIT for the better part of a decade, he began studying gravitational waves under the tutelage of physicist Rainer Weiss.
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Three 6 Mafia's influence has been particularly strong for the better part of this decade, but it still feels underappreciated in the way that rap fans commemorate all-time greats.
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Wyden says his Consumer Data Protection Act is a direct response to the ocean of privacy scandals that have plagued the internet for the better part of the last decade.
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Considering a lot of people have not carried cash for the better part of this millennium, the beginning of our relationship operated like most: on a see-saw of transactions.
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Mike Francesa has been mailing it in for the better part of a decade, but every once in a while, he can still reach back and fire off his fastball.
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Helicopters and convoys of sport utility vehicles descended on the city on Sunday, choking it with traffic after the highway, blocked for the better part of a week, was reopened.
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For the better part of a decade, she immersed herself in every possible subject related to Frank: Poland in the eighteenth century, religion, mysticism, the Jewish enlightenment in Central Europe.
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Our society, by contrast, festooned Weinstein with honors, endowed him with riches, and enabled him to feast on his victims without serious consequence for the better part of 30 years.
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Dun & Bradstreet has been around the better part of two centuries; it can afford to experiment with the cloud rather than rushing to push everything over to it right away.
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I had to put into focus that I'd spent the better part of two years running around the state of Florida and away from my three children and my wife.
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North America's largest waterfowl, the trumpeter was nearly extinct in Canada and the lower 48 states for the better part of a century — brought down by the shotguns of Europeans.
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But throughout the better part of the last decade, D.C. has worked hard to shake off its tired reputation as an antiquated steakhouse town where meat-and-potatoes reign supreme.
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Either way, the show was a hit for the better part of a decade, drawing an overall average of 22017 and a half million viewers per episode throughout its run.
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As a couple they traveled together for the better part of 10 years, each interpreting landscape through their own lens to engage site, perception, and time — yet they created separately.
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Today, Parcel 403 sits vacant, an exaggerated emptiness haunting the better part of the block between Avenues B and C with its darkened windows, many shattered and boarded with plywood.
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In fact, HAB and OHH have been working on joint informatics projects to improve care coordination for persons living with HIV/AIDS for the better part of the last decade.
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For the better part of three decades, I have built a career as a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national security professional focusing on Europe and Eurasia and especially the former Soviet Union.
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While visiting Istanbul, Ms. Bashir, 34, a travel enthusiast who has visited dozens of countries, spent the better part of 20 hours trying to book excursions and contacting tour operators.
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It was a role he would play for the better part of a decade across Iraq and Syria as Tawhid wal-Jihad slowly morphed into the so-called Islamic State.
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Negotiations have been taking place for the better part of the autumn, with the biggest sticking point around whether investments into natural gas or nuclear energy could be considered green.
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Negotiations have been taking place for the better part of the autumn, with the biggest sticking point around whether investments into natural gas or nuclear energy could be considered green.
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During a stopover in Australia last December to promote this event, he dropped the game face that he had worn like a mask for the better part of two decades.
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Modern Iraq — a European creation that made countrymen out of ancient adversaries — has been held together only by external force or internal despots for the better part of a century.
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Parnas is an important player because he spent the better part of the last year working alongside Giuliani, using his Ukraine connections to dig up political dirt on the Bidens.
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Cutting just one of these systems, for example, could cover the recently quadrupled program to fortify deterrence in Europe against an aggressive Russia for the better part of a decade.
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"[The XLI] has been going straight up for the better part of 12 to 15 months, and it has made exactly no progress relative to the S&P," said Worth.
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In early March, the 11 other nations signed the renamed Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership in Chile after spending the better part of the last year reworking the deal.
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Tenants, many of whom have lived on this quiet, gritty block in the South Bronx for the better part of a decade, pay around $1,000 a month for their apartments.
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"The strong dollar has been torpedoing everyone's international investments for the better part of a year or so," said Jamie Cox, Managing Partner at Harris Financial Group in Richmond, Virginia.
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The Half King, a bar and restaurant in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, has been for the better part of two decades a watering hole for writers, photographers and filmmakers.
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Shero said the Devils' management and the scouting department had spent the better part of two years obtaining information about the players whom the team might pick at No. 1.
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I'd say this field has worshiped at the altar of the technical for the better part of 60 years, and at the expense of understanding the social and the ethical.
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Robert Somerville is waiting to be loaded onto to airplane, destined for Vancouver, after spending the better part of the week in a high-risk immigration detention center in Australia.
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Or when you could spend the better part of a day watching amusing YouTube clips and still somehow feel like you'd earned your paycheck instead of sliding toward professional oblivion?
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Soltau reassured investors the company had worked hard "for the better part of the last several years" to reduce reliance on Chinese suppliers and would try to reduce any consequential impact.
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