They say that a car should be used "preponderantly" for business purposes.
The weight of authoritative professional opinion is preponderantly in favour of it.
The population of 23½ millions is preponderantly urban.
Our bookmakers depend preponderantly on horseracing for their business.
Therefore, we are bound to draw a distinction somewhere between those ships preponderantly in use in coastal, or in effect internal, transport, and ocean-going ships.
Here again, it is the preponderantly working class areas which suffer.
Apart from the use of the word "preponderantly", the only fair procedure would be to compare the business mileage with private mileage.
Crime at present is unfortunately preponderantly an activity of the young.