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1. most of. The public at large doesn't take the problem seriously.

2. not in prison. Police arrested one man, but the other suspects in the robbery are still at large.

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He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. The Declaration of Independence by History Documents View in context Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at large in it. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context The various checks which influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context More results

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

The Declaration of Independence by History Documents View in context

Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at large in it.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

The various checks which influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered.

The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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