How To Use Largely In A Sentence
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The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
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Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
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‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
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In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic.
Language Log
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The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the house fly belongs.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it
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In 1915 he published another volume of verse, Youth, which passed largely unregarded.
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More nuanced music suffered, largely due to the tonearm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unicity is run by Johannesburg's first-ever executive mayor - previously the mayor was a largely ceremonial position.
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Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials.
A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
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Largely he was happy in his perfectly toned sepia world.
Times, Sunday Times
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One reason for his relative obscurity has been the general unavailability of his music: his works remained unpublished during his lifetime and, apart from some ‘easy’ tonal compositions, largely unperformed.
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It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
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The slump in prices was largely attributed to inferior quality tea being produced by various India gardens.
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The drop was largely due to changes in conversion rates.
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Pay packets are therefore largely determined by the skills and acumen of other financiers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The team is largely staffed with ancients and has-beens.
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Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped.
Undefined
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Catherine Street were largely ignoring shoplifting and simply passing its cost on to their customers.
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The absence of a clear understanding about those root causes largely explains why several would-be peace agreements ended up dishonoured or discarded.
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It was largely a matter of trial and error.
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Like him, these were staff guys, in their mid-thirties, soldiers who had until now been largely warless.
Doug Stanton: Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
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The scaleup has been made largely possible by rising donations and falling price for drugs, which have plummeted from 10,000 dollars to 300 dollars per person per year in three years.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The bigger picture is the implication this has for the largely unexplored region.
Times, Sunday Times
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This phenomenon has gone largely unremarked upon by US military and civilian officials.
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These largely acoustic songs reacquaint us with his tremulous, soulful vocals and cutting lyrical style.
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The economics of postage and packing may mean that discount retailing remains largely, if not wholly, a bricks rather than clicks activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And by 1947 Europe had largely exhausted its dollar reserves.
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Prior to the current political crisis, the Senate had been largely supportive of Mr Estrada since he took power in 1998.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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Its ills have largely been the result of the rapid growth in popularity of online movie rental and download services.
Times, Sunday Times
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ARS scientists, working with NRCS and universities, have done the research that has encouraged farmers to largely put away the moldboard plow and switch to conservation tillage on about 40 percent of U.S. planted acres.
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In another setting, a firehouse was ordered to take down its largely secular holiday decorations, because neighbors were offended by it.
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London was a seemingly remote outpost of what was then an organisation largely focused on the US.
Times, Sunday Times
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That it works at all is largely down to the enthusiasm of its cast, who set about making the most of a tired and mostly cliched scenario.
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It has an untamed feel, having been largely unmanaged for many decades and it's littered with old wood and falling trees, a perfect habitat for these invisible workers.
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And when they farm - if they farm at all - they do so inefficiently, in smallholdings, largely at the mercy of nature.
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Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Remember also that many disk and other utility programs are incompatible, this is not necessarily a problem as they are largely redundant.
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There are few towns in this area;it is largely land for farming.
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To quell resistance, air strikes and artillery barrages were called in, largely demolishing the town.
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My research has largely been in the chemistry of how the particular components of chondrites, very primitive meteorites, actually formed in the solar nebula.
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Whether it is ever opened depends largely on what happens in the coming weeks.
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So looking at whether something makes people happy is largely futile. In statisticians' terms, you are looking for variance in something that is invariant.
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The tribal populace in the hilly areas of the State has not been largely affected by the same as comapared to the plain people.
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On view are nearly 100 sculptures in beeswax, paper and bronze, along with photographs, miniatures and drawings in an exhibition largely installed by the artist.
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Previous taxonomic groupings were based largely on single characters.
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In these Puppenspiele (puppet-shows) the comic element largely prevails and is kept up by the comic figure Kasperle, a buffoon or 'Hanswurst' of the same character as the Italian Pulcinella, the progenitor of our
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
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The President said the bridge would boost the economy on Madura island, which has been largely untouched by development, lagging behind other regions in Indonesia.
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The computer generated effects, live action and animatronics courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop are largely convincing, although some of the blue screen work is rough around the edges.
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The rest of the speech consisted largely of jingoistic bluster and attempts at political intimidation.
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Losing the triple-A badge would be largely symbolic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The city's historic center, which had been largely spared massive bombing raids until then, was almost completely destroyed during this attack.
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The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).
The Heirloom City
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Its ills have largely been the result of the rapid growth in popularity of online movie rental and download services.
Times, Sunday Times
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Newspapers and television viewing are largely proscribed and inmates are often unable to contact their families for months.
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The fact that they were under a compliance audit at this time is largely irrelevant to the issue.
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How these systems may respond to the rapid and major global warming predicted over the coming century is uncertain but largely dependent on whether coral-algal symbioses can adjust to decadal rather than millennial rates of climate change.
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Since then, his reforms have largely been stymied by theological and political hardliners.
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Martin Luther and John Calvin, was that the Church had largely abandoned the Augustinian doctrine of Grace.
Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market, they had been largely absent for several seasons.
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The Baiga dearly loves the common country liquor made from the mahua flower, and this is consumed as largely as funds will permit of at weddings, funerals and other social gatherings, and also if obtainable at other times.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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Conventional naval armament based on surface strength has become largely ornamental.
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Starring Dennis Quaid, it is the latest in a line of American sports movies to try their luck in front of largely uncomprehending British audiences.
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Search strategy has largely blind search and heuristic search two categories.
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These neatly landscaped grounds will be largely empty of people, who will usually enter and leave the towers by car from the gaping maw of a parkade off the Ring Road.
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This revenue-neutral property was believed essential for public acceptance, which in fact has been largely favourable.
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Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures.
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This is largely because doctors avoid using the terms hermaphroditism or intersexuality around intersexuals and their parents.
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The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
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This reduction was largely achieved on a voluntary basis, and our employees showed remarkable resilience and loyalty, despite such difficulties.
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The title of chief was largely a matter of prestige, as authority was exercised by the consensus of those of high status, who would act as arbiters in dispute resolution.
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The skills jockeys employ to get horses to win races are largely visible and obvious - despite many attempts at mystification by a racing culture addicted to magic and superstition.
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The sea was a conduit for commerce, largely free of chauvinism.
Times, Sunday Times
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It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac.
Reflections on Self-Regard
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Contrary to the sense of chaos and violence offered in unsourced Twitter feeds, Iranian protests have been largely peaceful
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Not always smoothly — Peirce himself parted ways with his fellow pragmatist William James, largely over the idea that truth was mutable, that is, what is "true" can become not true and even then true again, depending on the situation.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Since then, his reforms have largely been stymied by theological and political hardliners.
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Each frame of reference is constructed largely through cultural influences. Broadly speaking there are four possible approaches: Isolation.
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The US military and law enforcement have used video games back to Duck Hunt to teach trainees in "shoot/don't shoot" choices (largely "shoot" for the military and "don't shoot" for law enforcement, but the techniques are very similar).
Archive 2008-03-01
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We live in a largely secular society.
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Their secretive rituals and mysterious ceremonies have gone largely unchanged for centuries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The much vaunted Hunting Act 2004 (vaunted, that is, by Fascistic Bigots) has resulted in a piddling number of largely piddling prosecutions since coming into force.
Vigilantes Receive Smart Smack On Snout
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So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war.
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I'm actually suggesting that they are (largely) incapable of thinking outside the box (to use a well-overworn phrase).
Coding Dispositions at GDC
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With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
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Still, the Giants did fill a huge need by buttressing what were largely woeful special teams units with a lot of speed.
Giants' Class Helps Solidify Special Teams
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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They harness the energy and urgency of electronic music while largely doing away with emotion and invention.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems likely, therefore, not only that most of the nematodes will on analysis turn out to be hydrophilous, but also that in this highly organic but waterlogged soil, they may feed largely on decaying organic matter.
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He has tried to discredit the legality of parliament's inquiry, largely by concentrating on minor technical issues.
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In 1776 Cagliostro and his wife were in London, where "Cagliostro" became a Freemason, joining a lodge connected with "The Order of Strict Observance," a secret society incorporated with Freemasonry, and which (on the Continent, at least) was concerned largely with occult subjects.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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The monks were chiefly responsible for preserving this teaching, since it was largely directed to them.
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Accuracy and consistency, largely a facet of pump design, are the key requirements for these dispensers.
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They do not bioaccumulate in biota to any appreciable extent, as they are largely metabolized.
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From infancy through early adolescence, Semai children are largely unconstrained and free of external domination.
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Twenty-two years later, despite its cornucopia of Oscars, this was now a film largely forgotten.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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This country is largely desert.
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This chapter also draws largely, especially upon geological and chemical science, and affords another illustration of what, I trust, Mr. Stephens's book will more and more impress upon our working farmers, that _skilful practice is applied science_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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The western Great plains was largely settled at this time, and yield rich harvests of wheat.
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Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
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Sekt in Gemany and Austria is largely made from Riesling, yielding fruit-driven and light wines that are terrific aperitifs.
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American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.
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This _liaison_ was largely sentimental, and marked by a kind of etherealized sensuality.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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This expected slowdown appears to be largely due to mounting affordability pressures, which have increasingly constrained housing demand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overlooking Hollybush to the north is a huge prehistoric earthwork, no doubt associated with the more complex one on the Herefordshire Beacon, but largely enclosed by thick, hanging woods.
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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Our group largely agreed but added that the police response to our actions would play a decisive role in how far things would escalate.
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But it is nicely breezy and quite enjoyable to watch, made so largely by the performances.
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Rhys's linguistic speculations may now be largely out-dated, but the Lectures on Welsh Philology helped put the study of philology, in particular the philology of the Welsh language, on a secure academic basis.
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Qassam himself was "martyred" by British troops in 1935, at the start of the Palestine Revolt, and then largely forgotten until his memory was revived by Hamas.
Which Way for Hamas?
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Aboriginal society had mechanisms, even though unformulated and largely unconscious to its practitioners, of dealing with religious flexibility.
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They managed to restore the past glory of this forefather of the comic book industry - largely developed by American Jews after the Depression and reaching its heights in the '60s.
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In spite of sporadic violence, polling was largely orderly.
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Despite this, the effectiveness of the newly amended s.62 will depend largely on how the courts decide to interpret it.
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It largely reduces the strength of recoil during shooting, but its greatest usefulness is apparent during bare-hand fighting.
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So far, investors have remained largely untroubled by the lack of government since inconclusive elections in December that led to six months of political deadlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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These notes are largely extracts and only contain a limited amount of comment.
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The steep banks of the Ohio River are largely tree-covered as they pass through Cincinnati.
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So far the discussion concerns laboratory studies and simulations and can be considered largely theoretical.
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Like so much of what's been reported about Lorna Moon, it was largely codswallop, the tittle-tattle of small town gossips.
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An agreeable premise becomes an amusing but largely forgettable film.
Times, Sunday Times
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Primary education, having become universal and largely public, became overwhelmingly secular.
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Ultimately, despite the largely uncredited work of the skilled St. Louis cast and crew, the general familiarity with its underdog story type, coupled with the undefined ensemble cast, ultimately bring it down.
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Apple's iPod has largely been responsible for the problems now faced by Sirius and XM -- problems which have been acerbated by the irresponsible over-spending on programming by Sirius's CEO Karmazin, who should not be bailed out by the FCC by allowing the merger.
Charles Warner: My Hyperbole Was Wrong
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This error is largely due to my oversight.
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But in an hour-long press conference which largely retrod the argument of yesterday's announcement, both men refused point-blank to comment on rumours of a new pact to pass the Labour leadership in return for entry to the euro.
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In practice, the forced resettlement of rural populations into ujamaa villages was met with great local opposition, and Tanzanian socialism has largely proven to be an economic failure.
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But the gesture, largely a political expedient, was not all it seemed.
A Rock and a Hard Place
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Twenty20 batting is largely premeditated and he outthought them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bukey's interpretation of Austria's annexation to Germany largely follows the prevailing view.
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Electronics were largely eschewed for acoustic strumming, vibes, banjo and plenty of ‘ba-ba-ba’ backing vocals.
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His almost unimaginable guilt from two consecutive suicides, too, is largely unplumbed, though probably not unfelt.
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The prime minister used his keynote speech at Labour's spring conference in Gateshead to acknowledge it was largely his fault that his bond with the public had frayed.
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) will chair the conference committee charged with "harmonizing" the House and Senate bills and has provisionally named conferees, largely on the basis of seniority.
Lawrence G. McDonald: Will The Next Three Weeks Change Wall Street Forever?
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The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
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Police say the largely built-up area around the park has become one of the town's juvenile nuisance hotspots in recent years and a revamped park would help deter anti-social behaviour.
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The power of hypnosis exists largely in the direct communication with the subconscious.
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In this case the channels are largely composed of naturally occurring Lys and Ser residues that form alpha helices and are engineered to oligomerize through specific residue interactions.
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These tooth marks suggest a diet of largely hadrosaurs and ceratopsians and typically occur more commonly on limb bones than on vertebrae.
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Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite.
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And a very big part of their struggle is with the structure of power, and especially wealth, among Muslims because that is largely based on practices that are at best murkily understood even by professionals, and which are easily attacked by propagandists, e.g,, the World Bank causes poverty.
Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror
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‘The dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil marriage’ and ‘civil union’ is not innocuous: it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual couples to second-class status.
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Once operational, the prototype under construction will be largely unamenable to "new ideas".
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The decision to go down the Windows route was largely down to his insistence that it would offer greater programming flexibility.
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It will then be largely dry and fine in most places but wintry showers are expected in northern areas.
The Sun
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They are said to have passed a very "comfortable winter," subsisting largely upon the abundant game found in the new country, the oxen being supplied with plenty of browse from the trees.
Living in Dryden: Early settlement
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Consequently, nitroglycerin went largely unnoticed for many years, while the manufacture and use of guncotton, despite several notorious accidents, spread throughout Europe.
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I’ve toyed with the idea of broaching the subject of ID for some time now, and while I have skirted the issue in class, I’ve never developed a lecture for it, largely because I fully agree that it is non-science.
Archive 2006-02-01
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He sleeps curled up in dark corners and his movements consist largely of prowls and leaps.
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The concrete walls are largely unadorned, but in places are tinted dull pink or blue and clad in horizontal slats of dark tropical hardwood.
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Except for the fiddle at a dance or a melodeon at home, frontier music, in its cultural aspects, was largely confined to amateur bands with plenty of oompah.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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I have to admit this one was largely inspired by Diorissiomo in the extrait.
Archive 2009-06-01
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It was largely unnoticed until shed and swimming pool owners began to receive hefty bills.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ancient and largely uncomfortable seating would be replaced and the giant 2,300-seater Oval Hall redecorated and a new carpet laid.
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The father, especially in posh families, was largely absent or not to be disturbed.
Girls Like Pink ...Fact
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Over time, these over-excited receptors become desensitized to the effects of norepinephrine, largely due to the effects of a second molecule, beta-adrenergic receptor kinase.
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The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.
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Right now, so far as I can discern, CPE is largely a racket that does little good for either public or professionals.
Election 2004
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The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling.
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Now we were very keen to hear the thoughts of some of the Orwell Award nominees, but our offers were largely declined.
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The time taken to do this depended largely on intuition and experience.
The Times Literary Supplement
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People's priorities thus remain largely unarticulated in the absence of a decentralization process.
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There is no doubt that Hammarskj6ld's northern sense of propriety was deeply shaken by the roughness of the outburst, and ironically, since the Russian code of what is socially permissible comes largely across the Baltic from Sweden, it was precisely this rowdy behavior of Khrushchev's, dubbed Ne-Kulturny (uncultured), which eventually proved his undoing at home.
An Autobiography
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The band's success is largely due to the popular appeal of the lead singer.
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Paddle is largely a doubles game, marked by rapid volleying at the net.
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Weather conditions had been damp, and it seems that local firemen attending the rally "doused" the bonfire - constructed largely of wooden shipping pallets - with "diesel and another accelerant".
The Register
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He remained largely unrecognized by the scientific establishment.
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Only a certain calibre of A-lister can get away with it and Eto'o largely does.
Samuel Eto'o's deadly form for Inter could spell trouble for Tottenham
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On the campaign trail, he had coined a zinger against rival Mitt Romney, saying President Barack Obama's health-care law was largely based on the policy Mr. Romney promoted as Massachusetts governor, and calling Mr. Romney's law "ObamneyCare.
Withdrawal Follows a Failure to Ignite
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GOALS, goals, goals between two largely unfancied sides.
The Sun
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This bird is largely confined to the southern regions of the country.
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Japan's major past overseas missions -- including in Iraq, near Afghanistan, and as UN peacekeepers -- have been largely for logistical and support purposes such as refuelling, transport and reconstruction.
Undefined
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The literary equivalent of a chick flick, Oleander details one girl's attempts to come to terms with her mother while also surviving the cold and largely indifferent world of foster care.
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There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.
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Come winter, he'll have to brave a frigid, largely sunless climate.
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KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul.
U.N. report links spike in Afghan civilian casualties to insurgent attacks
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With the state industrial sector largely idle, many citizens reportedly rely on state asset stripping, hoarding, trading and personal farm plots to survive.
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But the urgency of the drive to dislodge the Iraqi leader largely flows from the threat that he will acquire nuclear weapons.
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But these sites also operate in a more catch-as-catch-can fashion, relying largely on what is either sent to them by other writers or they themselves can snag from the information vortex.
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Its credibility depends largely on the reflected glamour of natural selection which biology proper is said to legitimise.
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Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel?
THE IRATE NATION
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Mobutu, undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, has been operating largely from his villa in nearby RoquebruneCap-Martin.
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Judges are unelected and largely unaccountable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two years ago, Aircell, based in Itasca, Ill., and Louisville, Colo., paid $31 million to the federal government for a batch of air-to-ground spectrum that was originally used for in-flight seat-back phones – - an expensive service that passengers largely ignored.
Logging On and Tuning In at 40,000 Feet - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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He therefore has much less of the baggage that converts often bring, and he is able to write in a largely irenic and fraternal manner.
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Now he is largely viewed as a hawk and lickspittle himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dollar's attempted strong upward thrust was for now largely rebuffed in volatile currency trading.
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Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.
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Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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They are local votaries of heritage preservation, yet their voice remains largely unheard.
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On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
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This arises largely and insidiously from the slavish adoption here of virtually all Americanisms - some invaluable, the majority deplorable.
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The chief plants furnishing the drugs of commerce, and which enter largely into tropical agriculture, are the narcotic plants, especially tobacco, the poppy for opium, and the betel nut and leaf; as masticatories -- but there are very many others to which the attention of the cultivator may profitably be directed.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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And, so, this shibboleth, which is largely used by Republicans, to say, oh, the Democrats want terrorists in your -- in your neighborhood, in your community, that is a lot of baloney.
CNN Transcript May 14, 2009
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His Cabinet reshuffle largely involved middle-ranking and junior members of his ministerial team.
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B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty, -- the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
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The Central Bank, like many other government bodies, has suffered from a transfer of resources to private industry driven largely by salary differentials.
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These warning signs were largely ignored.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when it comes to compliance with the law, it has got to be largely voluntary.
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Rural areas are also reporting a boom in sales figures largely due to an upsurge in tourism because of the good summer.