Sentence examples for a plurality of half from inspiring English sources

By a plurality of half a million, the voters had expressed a preference for his ideas (though not, one guesses, his personality) over Bush's.

If you factor in the millions who opted for outriders--Ralph Nader to Gore's left; Patrick Buchanan, Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips to Bush's right--then the electorate's expressed preference for a budgetary and tax regime more liberal than Bush's goes from a mere plurality of half a million to an outright majority of two and a half million.

Now there are three or three and a half, yet there is a plurality of media out there, all competing for an advertising pie that hasn't gotten that much bigger.

You can't do that with a group of citizens that are going to compose a majority of this state by 2020, and which will be a plurality of this state in about a year and a half".

Normative pluralism is less radical it posits a plurality of bearers of value.

This year, with Republicans eager to turn Mr. Obama out of the White House, a plurality of voters said it was their single most important consideration; about half supported Mr. Romney.

As you can see from the charts above, a plurality of SV 150 companies have no women on their boards, while nearly half of the S&P 100 companies have at least two women.

Similarly, a plurality of Democrats say the law will improve the national economy, while 8 in 10 Republicans and half of independents see the law as harmful to the economy.

Just as exit polls showed in each previous contest this year, a plurality of voters in Florida said that the most important candidate quality was the ability to beat President Obama (nearly half of all responses).

You need a plurality of voices.

It will reflect a plurality of views".