11.  Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour, and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige.

12.  Although the Luddites failed to halt mechanization, they touched off a philosophical battle that has survived for the better part of two centuries.

13.  An only child, Parris spent the better part of a year settling the estate.

14.  And he might incorporate back-to-back classes in which students would focus on reading for the better part of two straight hours.

15.  And for the better part of an hour, passengers are enchanted and entertained.

16.  And Phil Gramm, with one eye on a little white pickup truck puttering across Texas, may find moderation the better part of valor.

17.  And she spends the better part of each day devouring newspapers, watching television, perusing academic journals, browsing magazines and trolling the Internet.

18.  And so he did, for the better part of an hour.

19.  And then he unveiled as the centerpiece of his campaign the very kind of supply-side tax-cut fantasy he had spent the better part of two decades ridiculing.

20.  And then he was laid up for the better part of six months by two serious bicycle accidents.