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PRINCIPALLY

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Traducere în limba română

principally adverb

în special, mai cu seamă, mai ales; în mare majoritate.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He had come into the Transcontinental to learn magazine-literature, instead of which he had principally learned finance.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The table between the windows was covered with work-boxes and netting-boxes which had been given her at different times, principally by Tom; and she grew bewildered as to the amount of the debt which all these kind remembrances produced.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He thought principally of Mrs. Churchill's illness, and wanted to know how she was treated; and as for the ball, it was shocking to have dear Emma disappointed; but they would all be safer at home.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, addressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Encoded by human NBS1 Gene, ubiquitous expression of 754-amino acid 85 kD Nibrin occurs principally in testis, thymus, and spleen (sites of physiologic DNA double-strand breakage) and liver, lung, striated/smooth muscle, kidney, and gut (high proliferative activity).

(Nibrin, NCI Thesaurus)

I was to go home next night; not by the mail, but by the heavy night-coach, which was called the Farmer, and was principally used by country-people travelling short intermediate distances upon the road.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

As these were the best of her hopes, they could not always prevail; and in the course of a long morning, spent principally with her two aunts, she was often under the influence of much less sanguine views.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Such was the origin of the sort of intimacy which took place between them within the first fortnight after the Miss Bertrams' going away—an intimacy resulting principally from Miss Crawford's desire of something new, and which had little reality in Fanny's feelings.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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