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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241. In contrast, antral tumours mainly arose from mucosa showing the changes of chronic active gastritis.
242. Although development is taking place it is mainly benefitting the middle and upper class communities.
243. The female inmates were mainly employed in a domestic capacity as cleaners, cooks, etc., or in the laundry.
244. One of the three local boards was in an impoverished, mainly black section of Brooklyn called Ocean Hill-Brownsville.
245. He also seemed unaware of the great progress in laying fibre optic cable around the country, mainly between cities.
246. Municipal elections in the province were postponed from November until next May, mainly because of unresolved disputes over electoral boundaries.
247. Human deaths from snake bites are caused mainly by accident.
248. The era of class confrontation in Britain's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910-26.
249. The lines, mainly in block letters, wander and slant across the page.
250. Practice is interpreted as repetition, and feedback consists mainly of approving reactions from the teacher.
251. The analysis carried out concentrated mainly on the relationships between undergraduates' academic performance and their entry qualifications.
252. Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
253. For a number of years, artificial sweeteners were mainly used by diabetics, who bought the products in drugstores.
254. There was a lot more discipline in every way, mainly because of Dennis Banks and Herb Powless.
255. PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis.
256. These types of music also have the advantage of a much wider appeal than jazz, a mainly middle-aged,[http://sentencedict.com/mainly.html] middle-class interest.
257. Also, they are mainly here because they have small children and no earnings of their own.
258. Health authorities are currently appointing some health professionals, mainly doctors, into managerial positions with nursing as part of their remit.
259. Adult males are nomadic, wandering all round the polar ice cap and living mainly off seals.
260. At the moment, I do quite a few barn dances, mainly for wedding anniversaries.
261. Peel Hunt, which mainly advises on smaller companies, was second judged by client growth.
262. Nicholson remained fairly ambivalent about the thought of having a son, mainly, he explained, because of Anspach's attitude.
263. A great deal of research effort is going into overcoming hydrogen's shortcomings, mainly because it's such a clean fuel.
264. So long as we're mainly dependent upon oil, the possibility of high prices and ensuing civil unrest will always exist.
265. The school ethos was mainly concerned with turning out well-educated, potential wives of professional able-bodied men.
266. Scottie is mainly black, with a white chest and white ankle socks on black legs.
267. At the same time, writing became more widespread, mainly using a simplified alphabet of only forty-seven syllables.
268. At its Llanfyllin site, Grayman Tooling and Pressings manufactures sheet metal pressings and assemblies mainly for the automotive industry.
269. Halons - used mainly in fire extinguishers - are to be abolished by the year 2000.
270. Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman, a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic safety of every individual.
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.