Synonym: chiefly, in the main, primarily, principally. Similar words: ungainly, certainly, certainly not, maintain, domain, remain, in the main, remaining. Meaning: ['meɪnlɪ] adv. for the most part.
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211. In many ways, this was a good decision, mainly because I have no artistic talent.
212. Instead, except for initial new manager training, the learning was left mainly to chance.
213. The materials of Fluxus artists were mainly ephemeral or paper-based, or centred on performance art, presenting problems for exhibition organisers.
214. Doctors are continuing to pursue the possibility of a seizure mainly because everything else they can think of has been ruled out.
215. The remaining growth will be in industry - mainly the cement industry.
216. It includes an illustrated catalogue of more than 700 mainly unpublished artifacts from the site.
217. Too often, policies have worked only or mainly to the benefit of the rural elite or the local bureaucrats.
218. The woods beyond the rectory garden consisted mainly of beech trees, very tall, as though sending their branches up to the light.
219. Several large abbey churches survive, mainly built in brick, and all carefully restored.
220. Breakfast comes mainly buffet style and is ample enough for even the heartiest of appetites.
221. The show has a few bright spots, but is mainly uninspiring.
222. This was clearly difficult for those administering policy, mainly the army.
223. Agents said the women chosen as couriers mainly were in their 20s with middle-class appearances.
224. Lately, the restaurant chain, which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.
225. The civil law, mainly through the torts of trespass and private nuisance, also had a role to play.
226. I joined the club mainly because it has a basketball court.
227. Many observers suggest that this transfer has had mainly adverse effects on the population concerned.
228. Most of its partisans had focused mainly on military actions,[http://sentencedict.com/mainly.html] neglecting political efforts necessary to mobilize mass support.
229. A Labour victory would have boosted their disposable income by £311, mainly because of the increase in child benefit.
230. Moreover commercial banks today mainly lend to well-heeled borrowers in their own countries.
231. This takes place mainly up in the forest canopy, and so is almost impossible to film from the ground.
232. The army was a mainly infantry force, with a light cavalry screen, supported by a strong artillery arm.
233. As mentioned in the discussion of pathophysiology, their beneficial effect is mainly due to the blocking of striatal acetylcholine receptors.
234. So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals.
235. The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
236. Wilson has worked mainly on Carboniferous faunas collected from surface exposures and boreholes.
237. Despite this prudent, but politically damaging, platform, the party made gains, mainly in urban areas.
238. He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines.
239. Some choose to spend money mainly on seeds and others mainly on buying young store cattle or young lambs at market.
240. He goes on to relate many other such stories, mainly involving apparitions on the mission field.
More similar words: ungainly, certainly, certainly not, maintain, domain, remain, in the main, remaining, mainstream, maintenance, mail, in line, only, openly, only too, if only, in line with, fall in love, commonly, only that, only child, fall in love with, ain't, drain, again, chain, faint, obtain, regain, retain.