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What does by and large mean?

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Adverb
  1. (set phrase) mostly, generally; with few exceptions
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My theory is that men have by and large eroticised freedom, while women have eroticised its absence.
The bosses of the leather-curing establishments he met were by and large a dispirited lot.
Though corruption has been rampant among the subordinate ranks, senior officers, by and large, were not tainted by corruption.
This borrowing has by and large financed consumption, with alarmingly minimal productive investment.
I find him, by and large, very funny, though he's always treads a fine line between being funnily offensive and being downright offensive.
Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations.

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