1.  Despite my complaining, I have the better part of the deal.

2.  Discretion being the better part of schoolteaching, I keep mum on that one.

3.  Dole has spent the better part of the race waiting desperately for someone to go negative about Clinton's ethical lapses.

4.  Discretion isn't always the better part of valor.

5.  Dozens of people have spent the better part of a decade chronicling Ichiro and trying to probe his psyche.

6.  Detroit, which skated like the Dead Wings for the better part of 40 minutes, resurrected their pride in the final period and peppered Kings goaltender Felix Potvin.

7.  Discretion is the better part of a lot of things I thought to myself, including good vacations.

8.  Discretion is the better part of valor: surrender the parking spot during howitzer season.

9.  Economics may have become a science, but for the better part of this century, Galbraith has shrewdly insisted on treating it as a branch of belles lettres.

10.  Ehrenreich spent the better part of two years trying to survive on jobs that paid $6 or $7 an hour.