1.   A double bed with starched white sheets covering a too-soft mattress fills most of the space.

2.   A dud for most of the year, with peaks at the start of the school year and at Christmas.

3.   A fine coating of dust covered most of the furniture.

4.   A freak wave wrecked most of the seafront.

5.   A government has more stakeholders than a business, and most of them vote.

6.   A nice young man, but I gather he spends most of his life playing sport and looking after their landed interests.

7.   A number of distinguished commentators, most of them ecclesiastics, were assembled to evaluate the programmes and their implications.

8.   A pocket calculator will do most of the work.

9.   A severe drought has caused most of the corn crop to fail.