in general in English:

The criminal is at large. We need to capture him.

The prisoners escaped and many of them are now at large.

The three men are little known to the public at large.

He could have been talking to the country at large.

There were three convicts still at large.

There are fewer and fewer exotic species living at large.

You can`t encounter tigers at large.

Support for the government amongst the population at large is low.

It is therefore unacceptable after so many years that General Ratko Mladić remains at large.

The very word philanthropy does not necessarily have 100% positive connotations for the public at large given where we are in terms of the public's attitude towards business or the banks and that kind of stuff.

Students at large felt that discipline was too strict. Truck drivers at large don't like the new speed restriction on the highway.

Twelve prisoners are at large following a series of escapes.

Business has fallen off a bit in the last two months, but by and large we're doing ok.

by and large it is good solutio

There are a few small things that I don't like about my job, but by and large it's very enjoyable

I suppose I enjoyed my holiday on the whole.

I think I prefer other restaurant on the whole

Private schools on the whole give parents what they want.

This vowel change has much to do with the overall accent pattern assigned to each word.

The assessment of communist countries is positive overall.

I had many problems during my visit to the U.S., but overall, I had a good time.

The overall output was tons.

Relative to overall sales, that of software is insignificant.

Are you certain that you lost your book, or did you merely misplace it?

merely existing

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.

Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Truth burns and destroys all elements, showing that they are merely its shadow.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Japanese students seem not merely to be extremely reserved, but to have at times almost a complete reluctance to speak.

We need to separate the brilliant candidates from the merely very good.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.