1.   A community famed for exuberant high living suddenly Decided that austerity was the better part of valour.

2.   Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.

3.   Converse drank the better part of the rum.

4.   For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the Decisive restraints.

5.   Having seen his ally overwhelmed in this startling fashion, Count Vulgrin Decided that discretion was the better part of valour.

6.   I expect the whole procedure to take the better part of a morning.

7.   It is not widely taught or particularly popular be-cause it takes the better part of a lifetime to master.

8.   It took the better part of an hour, but in the end we managed to squeeze everything in.

9.   The guy on the right side lost the better part of his face and was all messed up.

10.   Arthur Kobold cut himself a generous wedge and thrust the better part of it into his mouth.