61.  Carr took a group of players who have been losers for the better part of three seasons and convinced them they could win.

62.  Clerks cannot sell merchandise if they are learning about a new clothes dryer for the better part of the afternoon.

63.  Clinton, also leading in local polls, knows that leaving the subject alone is the better part of valor in a state he badly needs for victory.

64.  Cool, gray drizzle wiped out the better part of one week.

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

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

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

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

69.  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.

70.  Drinks continued to be served for a while, but shortly before midnight, the management decided that discretion was the better part of entertainment.