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How to use the word mainly in a Sentence? Page #7

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North Korean risks are no longer a 'half-day-slip', mainly because markets are not sure how Washington would handle them.

Jeon Seung-ji

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Iraqis have long linked their life to the government and its budget, and therefore we don’t have the business mentality mainly among youths, the youths have developed an idea that a university degree automatically leads to a comfortable public sector job.

Mahmoud Daghir

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That means it cannot determine cause and effect, the meta-analyses that the authors cite are also mainly based on observational data. On the other hand, large observational studies sometimes are able to detect effects in some groups or for more rare outcomes that trials are not empowered to see, so these studies are still valuable.

Nancy Cook

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our band has outlast multiple marriages... We found one another. I felt this very unique chemistry that had potential to be a cool band and we all shared that same idea…There have been so many moments sprinkled over time where it’s these incredible moments. We have been fortunate to have all these really cool opportunities… pushing forward to the next new thing and challenge, which is this tour coming up and things like that…that is what we are mainly thinking about not past achievements but future endeavors.

Brann Dailor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I mainly thought it was just a good story.

Klaus Kristiansen

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I spent so many years at Juilliard just wanting to beat somebody up, i think it was the height of my anger; that chip on my shoulder. I'm still trying to take care of that chip on my shoulder, by the way. It was mainly because I felt my voice as an artist was being stifled.

Viola Davis

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our oldest finds are from around 500 BC, but the city seems to have flourished mainly from the fourth to the third century BC before it was abandoned for some reason, maybe in connection with the Roman conquest of the area.

Robin Rnnlund

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Of course, I want people to give me feedback [on my lips]. a lot of my friends use Snapchat, but I mainly send photos through text.

Ryan Mercurio

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Currently, WikiLeaks is hosted mainly by the Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof in the Pionen facility, a former nuclear bunker in Sweden, other servers are spread around the world with the main server located in Sweden.

Gary Miliefsky

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's mainly bankers now, i'm not even sure that people here now know the history.

Darryl Smith

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Rate strategies in both the U.S. and the eurozone (mainly the periphery) added to performance. Holdings of TIPS were also additive, as were the fund's non-agency MBS positions, credit strategies including positions in financials, municipals and dollar-denominated EM debt, all benefited performance.

The Pimco Total Return Fund

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The measure is mainly intended to curb irrational speculation, which could be good for the overall market in the long run, yet could bode ill for speculative stocks in the short term.

Zhang Qi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is mainly domestic demand driven, we are seeing only a slow reaction on the exports side, but imports have posted a much stronger sequential expansion.

Vaninder Singh

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

After going 34,000 kilometers around the world he crossed the runway where he took off from, that's never happened before. It was mainly luck and it's just unbelievable.

Dick Smith

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The attrition we see is ... in the lower production levels, mainly due to people not being able to build a book of business.

Chief Executive Brian Moynihan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The investment in agriculture was mainly to increase agriculture productivity through intensification rather than in clearing new land for agriculture.

Eva Muller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The bias is to extend the current rally mainly because (U.S. economic) data that we've gotten so far has been supportive.

Brian Jacobsen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The South China Sea ruling was expected, and is mainly a matter of face, the direct impact on the market is pretty limited, on the GDP data and other macro data, if it comes in weaker than expected, you might see some small adjustments in monetary policy.

Xiao Shijun

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This has given wings to the dreams of many people in the world and it is mainly a gift that has been given to Mexico City.

Jorge Serrano

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Air strikes target mainly hospitals not militias.

Al Zoubi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In my understanding, the capacity that has recovered production is regular capacity, and not that marked for closure, enterprises stopping and resuming production is mainly a reaction to market changes - adjusting production is normal behavior.

Zhao Chenxin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Enterprises stopping and resuming production is mainly a reaction to market changes - adjusting production is normal behavior.

Zhao Chenxin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There's a huge change going on, mainly agricultural change and land for urbanization.

Kathy Willis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For production, the target is end of 2017, that is the target given by Novatek. For commercial contracts, 95 percent of the LNG is already sold mainly to Asia using oil-linked formula.

Russian Yamal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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