1.  Dell said that a large part of its success could be attributed to long-term relationships with big companies that rely on a continuous replacement cycle of computer systems.

2.  Cybersmith is in large part for low-tech people like Marshall Smith, who dreamed it up and is majority owner.

3.  Despite Fidelity's principal business and image as an investment management firm, a large part of the company's value is tied up in telecommunications today.

4.  Dempsey had always been a controversial figure, in large part because of the perception that he was a coward and slacker for not serving during World War I.

5.  Denial, Dr. Hamilton said, is a large part of the problem of eating disorders, a problem that affects a large number of young ballerinas.

6.  Despite, and in large part because of, our preoccupation with the technology of information and communications, the bubble of self-absorption has grown increasingly airtight.

7.  D'Amato, 61, lost in large part, analysts said, because Schumer was the toughest candidate he had ever faced.

8.  Despite passing both houses by overwhelming margins earlier this year, the proposal became a victim, in large part, because of a loss of enthusiasm among Republicans.

9.  Developed in large part by Mary Hannigan, a massage therapist in Tucson, Ariz., the technique uses heated stones to treat tense, overworked muscles.

10.  Did they forget that a large part of the public, among conservatives as well as liberals, wants a strong, principled person in America's highest office?