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Meanings of making most in English

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Usage of making most in English
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But Tortosa, Tarragona, Saguntum, and Valentia, after making most desperate resistance, fell.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleo...
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Writers are working! This season it is the artists making most of the noise.
The Irish Times
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The work on the canal is making most satisfactory progress.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to...
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All hell broke loose then, with me and Brock making most of the blather.
A Spaceship Named McGuire
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I spent my next seven years making most of the mistakes old entrepreneurs make.
The South African
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Our industrial system has resulted in almost stultifying men economically and making most of them economically non-productive.
Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They Are and Whence They Come
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I held out to the very last, and succeeded in making most astonishing friends for my age.
My Life — Volume 1
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From the inside, the Bentayga succeeds in making most everything else look like a '74 Morris Marina.
BBC
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You're making most of it up anyway.
Radio NZ
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His parents had fled the war-torn country five years earlier, making most of of their journey on foot.
The South African
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The Ten-Year Crusade is making most remarkable progress in all fields except the teaching on the home front.
Dawn of a New Day
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The allegations date back as far as the 1960s, making most of them too old for criminal prosecution.
Reuters
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On the floor below he could be heard talking politics with Vefour's headwaiter, and making most audacious statements.
Fromont and Risler — Volume 1
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If he were really Mary Everton's lover, he was certainly going about his love- making most moderately, I concluded.
Branded
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When they've been making most of the firm's money for years, it's much harder to be punitive, he said.
Reuters
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By this time I saw how things were going: wine and music were making most of the amateurs wild.
Miscellaneous Essays
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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