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The Liberal Democrat candidate Jenny Willott, who has been the MP here for the past decade, has a majority of around 5,000 over Labour.

Depending on turnout, that should mean a majority of around 7,000 votes, based on 2010 figures.

When Talent won the seat in 2002's special election he did so by a majority of around 20,000 votes.

The sitting member, William McCrea, has a majority of around 3,000 and is facing a strong challenge from Sir Reg Empey.

A very unGerman coup What the Tories are for ReprintsThe sharpest measure of Mr Howard's failure is that to win a majority of around 50 (17 less than Labour has now), the Tories will need to gain 140 seats and achieve a swing of over 9%.

A majority of Americans (around 54% last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington, DC, think-tank) get their tax-exempt health insurance through their employers, so losing a job often means losing cover.

"A majority of Romanians, around 10.5 million, did not participate or said no to the proposal of removing the president from office If someone plans to represent only 7 million, I can be president for all 22 million," he said in a press conference in which he clearly stated no intention of resigning.

Instead, Mr Chávez had them drafted in secret and rubber-stamped by a parliament which, thanks to the opposition's boycott of the election in 2005, is overwhelmingly composed of his unconditional supporters.But by a tiny majority, of around 1.4% according to the official figures, Venezuelans said no.

Indeed, most Shia leaders are reluctant, at present, to contemplate negotiating with the insurgents, for the simple reason that, as a national majority of around 60% to the Sunnis' 20% or so, they think they can win; the rougher the methods, the better.However, the influence of Shia hardliners may be waning.

The ML tree with the extended datasets reconstructed from a majority of data sets (around 76 out of 109) supports the groupings of Roseobacter with high BP values 80 100% (see File S2).

That sort of sentiment delights immigrants' rights advocates who have banged their heads against the wall for years to rally a majority of Congress around their agenda.