The press more often than not focuses on animals well-known.
this sentence is so tricky that I do not understand why the word "than" stand in this position. And the meaning make me confused too.
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I assume your sentence is incomplete - it isn't particularly common to phrase things '... animals well-known'. It should be: 'The press more often than not focuses on well-known animals'. – marcellothearcane Jun 30 '17 at 16:12
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'More often than not' is an idiom meaning strictly 'on over 50% of occasions' but pragmatically used, like 'most often', for percentages round about 70-80. – Edwin Ashworth Jun 30 '17 at 16:33
the press more often than not focuses on animals well-known
Replace "more often than not" with the word "usually" and you'll get the meaning.
It'll then be
the press usually focuses on animals well-known
Read more on ODO.
Or, as Hank suggests, you could also rearrange "well-known" this way
the press usually focuses on well-known animals
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Source: en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/more_often_than_not – marcellothearcane Jun 30 '17 at 16:09
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