more often than not

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more often than not

Fig. usually. These flowers will live through the winter more often than not. This kind of dog will grow up to be a good watchdog more often than not.

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Following on the Odes, we have much written in the same style, more often than not by women, or songs possibly written to be sung by them, always in a minor key, fraught with sadness, yet full of quiet resignation and pathos. A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context While this bankruptcy of the Circling Brothers had been the greatest financial achievement of Harris Collin's life, nevertheless he enjoyed no mean permanent income from his plant, and, in addition, split fees with the owners of his board animals when he sent them to the winter Hippodrome shows, and, more often than not, failed to split any fee at all when he rented the animals to moving-picture companies. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context Her quick mind and changing moods bewildered him, while her outlook on life was so different from what he conceived a woman's outlook should be, that he was more often than not at sixes and sevens with her. Adventure by London, Jack View in context			month by month mooch from mood moon moon about moon away moonlight mop mop down mop off mop the floor up with mop up mop up with mope around mopping-up operation moralize about more more and more more bang for buck more by accident than design more by luck than judgement more dead than alive More fool! more fun than a barrel of monkeys more like it more often than not more or less more power to More power to you! More power to your elbow! more than bargained for more than can shake a stick at more than Carter has pills more than meets the eye more than one bargained for more than one can bear more than one can shake a stick at more than you know more the merrier more you get, the more you want more's the pity morning morning after Morning dreams come true morning, noon, and night mortar moss most most of all mot moth			More Information Required More Information Than I Needed More Integrated Circuits for Optimum Reliability More Intensive and Flexible Services More is More More Is Never Enough More Kids in the Woods More Later More Light Churches Network More Light Presbyterians more like it More Likely Than Not More Localized Linux Games More Machine Than Man More Magic Solutions, Inc More Meta Than Thou More Money Than Brains More Money Than Talent More News As It Happens More of the Same More of the Same Old Stuff More of the Same Stuff More Of The Same, Only Better More Often As Necessary more often than not More Og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal Fylkesbåtar More on the Door More on the Way More on This Later More Open Electrical Technologies More Operational Realism in Modeling of Combat more or less more or less more or less more or less more or less more or less more or less More or Less At Owners' Option more pleasing more popular more power to More Power to You more power to you! more power to you! more power to you! more power to you! more power to you! more power to your elbow! more power to your elbow! more power to your elbow! more power to your elbow!

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