Synonym: generally, more often than not, mostly. Similar words: large, largely, at large, on a large scale, a large number of, by and by, by any means, target. Meaning: adv. usually; as a rule.
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31. Boys, by and large, express their aggression in physical assault.
32. By and large, Windows 95 fixes this problem, which is what your help desk is probably talking about.
33. Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description.
34. By and large, the retina only sends messages to the brain when the image on it changes.
35. The detail of planning legislation by and large fell to a number of able officials who had a remarkably free hand.
36. But the truth was that, by and large, the research university focuses its collective intelligence on other matters.
37. Cities and the new industrial areas were, by and large, the magnets which attracted them.
38. But as valuable as animals are, they have a serious drawback: by and large, they hate alcohol.
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39. By and large, children master the use of the language fairly quickly.
40. I think by and large we have a bunch of good guys.
41. It is an image, by and large, that coheres and satisfies.
42. The government has managed, by and large, to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992.
43. By and large, roses are for open situations and full sun, not dappled sunlight or shade.
44. In these respects, it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification.
45. Rather criminal activity as officially recorded is by and large a masculine activity, but one in which women do participate.
46. By and large, constitutional authorities, parties and public alike were pleased with the set up.
47. By and large, the new novel since 1953 has moved most naturally between social comedy and farce.
48. Hodgkin, by and large, just looks as if he's strayed in here and is making lots of noise.
49. By and large, most of the people in the town work at the factory.
50. The firefly of a psychic spirit gleaming in the nightscape of existence: ah, that he could pinpoint by and large.
51. The principles of fair procedure which govern the conduct of disciplinary hearings also apply, by and large, to appeal hearings.
52. By and large these youngsters had few social contacts with non-whites.
53. Phone-ins on radio can provide speedy feedback, but by and large feedback is much slower in the mass media than in interpersonal communications.
54. By and large, the inadequacies and limitations of these science and technology policy-making bodies is equally handicapped by many crucial issues.
55. By and large black athletes receive identical treatment to everyone else.
56. Obviously, you go into hospital to have kids - a wonderful thing, by and large.
57. Substantial private income augmented by vast salary and royalties from books Twittish behaviour: Pretty sound, by and large.
58. By and large, individual programs allow you to set a default directory where files are always saved.
59. By and large, Sussex escaped a very direct involvement in the war since the main battles were fought elsewhere.
60. Thankfully, by and large, Baxter kept controversy out of his pulpit ministry.
More similar words: large, largely, at large, on a large scale, a large number of, by and by, by any means, target, in charge of, take charge, friendly, a bundle of, by air, hardly any, by all means, by accident, flamboyant, day and night, cargo, urge, margin, emerge, surgery, surgeon, forget about, discharging, emergency, solar, salary, declare.