Candelabra's run as a website lasted the better part of a decade.

The civil war lasted the better part of ten years.

And thus began a treatment course which lasted the better part of ten days.

The silence lasted the best part of a minute, until broken by Siobhan.

There is a shouted conversation lasting the better part of an hour.

This phenomenon lasted the greater part of the day.

Lucas's interview had lasted the better part of that morning.

The recording took longer than planned, lasting the better part of a year.

The trip, which only four years ago lasted the better part of a day, now takes just two and a half hours.

He had lasted the better part of an hour before dying.