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more often than not

adv. usually; more than half the time; more likely to happen than not to happen.

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more often than not

adv. usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" [syn: by and large, generally, mostly]

Usage examples of "more often than not".

Always poking around for moth-holes in your best suit, and finding one more often than not.

That gas company job must have been difficult more often than not, but she kept showing up.

Queen Sollace dined with him each night, but Casmir had little to say, so that more often than not Sollace lapsed into plaintive silence.

The great pandemarchic cultures that seethe and ferment in the cadavers of empires are foremost in their concern for the weak, the stupid, the unlucky, and see the hope of aiding them only through the destruction of all official authoritarian systems (more often than not in order to exploit them privately for greater personal gain).

At least the colonel more often than not was able to counter Ruthven's demands.

She knew that more often than not burglaries took place in the broad light of day rather than by torchlight in the small hours of the morning.

It's hard, eye-straining work and, more often than not, it produces no results whatsoever.

That particular ability appears in a relatively small number of psis, but its possessor is more often than not a Class One who fails to develop any associated talents.

It's a usual state of affairs, and more often than not means nothing.