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• Maybe that would have been a good part of the book to change and expand on!
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Now 16 years old, Yaneli spent a good part of the night dancing.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
• The kitchen and dining areas use a good part of the main level, marked out by the teak floor.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
• Lack of football success for a good part of the 2010s decade was a problem.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Gaels led for a good part of the first half but a Gonzales jumper in the final minute of the third quarter had the Cougars on top 64-61.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2022
• Many travelers spend a good part of their time at the property lounging by the pool and taking in the views.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Sunny skies prevail for a good part of the day but some high clouds may increase late while winds are light from the northwest at 5 to 10 mph.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
• For a good part of three quarters, Oregon State appeared to be on the way to ending its eight-game losing streak.
  — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
• Maybe not pure enough to drink straight from the river, but certainly clean enough to spend a good part of the day walking, wading and rinsing in the Rio Grande.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 16 June 2021
• Redmayne is clever casting, as Cullen spends a good part of the movie being a loyal friend and confidante to Amy.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• Volunteers worked a 12-hour day on Saturday and a good part of Sunday as well.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
• Snow lovers may have been disappointed, but at least a good part of our region got a little bit of white stuff.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• Her husband, Keith, was up a good part of the night getting the paper ready for distribution.
  — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 2 July 2023
• Does this feel kind of surreal to you that a mob attacks the Capitol and a good part of Congress does not want to investigate this?
  — CBS News, 27 July 2021
• America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have burned through a good part of its diplomatic capital in the Middle East.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• These movements, along with the fact that a good part of each class is spent out of the saddle, give the SoulCycle experience more of a dance-meets-cardio vibe.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2022
• It will also be breezy across a good part of the state, according to the weather service, even in areas not expected to see stronger storms.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 12 Dec. 2022
• But a good part of the day should be dry and partly cloudy with temperatures once again headed near or past 80, probably topping out in the low to mid-80s.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
• Sign up for a free mountain tour to learn the ins and outs of the slopes, or try some night skiing before hitting the hay (a good part of the mountain is open for skiing several nights each week).
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• The little girl, like most of her classmates and teachers, spends a good part of her day in a Meta Quest 2 headset—a set of one-pound white goggles that extends in a single band across her eyes.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• The National Weather Service is forecasting air temperatures to reach the mid- to upper 90s across a good part of the state.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 28 July 2023
• As the trail gains elevation and contracts from wide dirt road to thin footpath, pine and Douglas fir trees dominate the forest, keeping the trail nice and shady for a good part of the way.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
• Suspenseful though seldom scary, the film is set a week before Halloween and hinges for a good part of its run time on the reliable horror trope of the threat coming from inside the house.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• Starting in the early twentieth century, the island was stripped of most of its phosphate deposits, a process that reduced a good part of it to a wasteland.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2021
• In the syntax of painting, the quality of line and the amount of pressure exerted in its making endow a painting with a good part of its energy.
  — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
• She’s staked out clear positions and comes across as no less moderate and pragmatic than Mr. Adams, who’s been the notional frontrunner for a good part of the race.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• Peoria coach Patrick Battillo lost his mom, his dad nearly died in a car accident, and his best player was out for a good part of the season with an injury.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• Pliny the Younger compared the shape of these trees to the volcanic eruption, with its column of smoke rising to a puffy cloud of ash that hovered, and then collapsed, burying a good part of what is now the Circumvesuviana’s route.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• That would have accounted for a good part of the country’s Paris goals, since electricity production accounts for about one-third of the country’s emissions.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2020
• German media and a good part of the population resisted.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024