Sentence examples for a plurality of people from inspiring English sources

Imagine your reaction to seeing a story saying that a plurality of people in Pomona, Calif., thought Newt Gingrich would be the best G.O.P. presidential candidate.

An Associated Press-GfK poll released this week found that a plurality of people still favor increasing drilling for oil and gas off the coasts even as an unprecedented natural disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico.

A top Gore strategist said today that polls indicated that a plurality of people who voted for Mr. McCain on Tuesday, at least in California, could conceivably vote for Mr. Gore in the fall.

Consider the striking results of a recent poll by the Pew Research Center: In most large European countries, a plurality of people say Germans are the hardest-working Europeans, with a substantial share also saying that Greeks are the least hard-working.

One recent study showed that a plurality of the people hired under the last stimulus package already had jobs; they were just switching from one to another.

In other words, having failed to appeal to a majority, or even a plurality, of voters the people who ostensibly select the candidate Mr Gingrich will appeal to their superiors to correct the peons' error.

And as his poll numbers deteriorate, with an increasing plurality of people unhappy with his job performance, there is no shortage of people blaming Mr. Corzine for the state's fiscal woes, singling out his 2007 car accident as the defining event of his tenure, or pining for a more popular politician like the State Senate president, Richard J. Codey.