the best/better part of sth

the best/better part of sthmost of sth, especially a period of time; more than half of sth（事物、时间的）绝大部份，多半The journey took her the better part of an hour.旅程花去了她半个多小时。

• speak in capitals
• with one's heart in one's boots
• plane strain
• sallowly
• erysiphes
• vaccinees
• hard-shelleds
• chemical sense
• whacking great
• enserfment
• metapsychical
• disimprisonment
• Tadjik
• -latry
• black water
• photosetter
• lambrequins
• proton scattering microscope
• longhands
• kleptocracy
• maquillaged
• the second Advent
• straw wine
• hexagonal platelet
• panopticons
• first-class lever
• punnies
• ferromagnetic material
• Phocaea
• waterhead
• rhyming slang
• U.S.V.
• hoof foot
• captain's biscuit
• terpene alcohol
• Bourges
• desensitizing
• gold number
• the shit hits the fan
• tectonic lens
• debris
• Scenedesmaceae
• homophones
• skeletal system
• when / if push comes to shove
• espressos
• sri lanka rupees
• monocytic
• hydrostatic assumption
• Anapurna
• cockshuts
• convexo-
• uranophane
• amphisbaenae
• oriented
• nickel sesquioxide
• silicone implant
• renderable
• mizen-mast
• horse-and-buggy league
• apostles
• workloads
• selertiveness
• DNA virus
• ergonomics
• average down
• anthropomorphisation
• stoechiometric
• improvise
• venerable
• perenniality
• new theology
• abnormal grain growth
• thrushes
• fungis
• demyship
• homiletically
• appositional
• confined groundwater
• anchor pile
• afterbirths
• atomizing
• papillose
• directional solidification
• red sandalwoods
• haiku
• ripple load cast
• Heublein method
• didapper
• anguiped
• pereirine
• tourbillion
• Cygnus
• second axion of countability
• acropolitan
• The deuce you he can't等
• sink marks
• drive motor
• to one's credit
• holier-than-thou