The phrase "a majority thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the opinions or beliefs held by most people in a group regarding a specific issue or topic.
Example: "In the recent survey, a majority thought that climate change is the most pressing issue of our time."
Alternatives: "most people believed" or "the consensus was".
Among the things that a majority thought would be "very helpful": clean, private spaces in public places where women can go to breast-feed their children.
A recent survey of businesses in the north of England by the Regional Policy Forum, a lobbying body, found that a majority thought elected assemblies were a good idea in principle.Mr Prescott hopes business sceptics will be persuaded that there will be less rather than more bureaucracy.
A majority thought that "most British politicians are personally corrupt".
Yet even if a majority thought this way, it is hard to see how a British republic could be achieved in practice.
A further result, however, is ignorance: in 2008 a highly controversial survey showed that especially East German schoolchildren knew shockingly little about the GDR past; a majority thought the Stasi was an intelligence service like any other; many held that the west had erected the wall and opined that the environment had been cleaner during state socialism.
According to one poll taken last month, a majority thought the country would join the EU even if the referendum produced a No vote: parliament would overrule the decision, or a new referendum would be held.Another problem is the unpopularity of Poland's left-wing government, led by Leszek Miller.
When instead, they ended up with 26 seats fewer and saw the Conservative party win an unexpected majority, thoughts turned to plans for the stone's disposal.
But even then, a majority of the unemployed thought that workers and employers were more responsible for getting people back to work than the government was.
Although Protestants continue to be a majority, they are perhaps best thought of as a "majority of minorities," in that the Protestant community comprises a mosaic of distinct denominations that vary enormously in size.
QUESTION FROM LANE FARNHAM: Quick follow up, I agree with you that Kagan will indeed evaluate the cases on the merits, but, as a homosexual, i am concerned that if she turns out to be anit-gay rights, it can be decades before gays have equal rights under the law as the conservatives already have a majority in the court, your thoughts?
Note, you don't have to accept all of these, but a majority of these represent traditional Gnostic thought, so it's a good idea to use these as a sort of starting point (taken from Stephan A. Hoeller's "Introduction to Gnosticism"): Spiritual Practice.
