Sentence examples for a swing of less from inspiring English sources

These are in Grimsby and Scunthorpe, where Ukip needs a swing of less than 20 points.

A swing of less than 6% from Labour would bring them their first East End seat in almost a century.

The Tory David Davies, a surfer who once ran an Australian backpackers' hostel, needs a swing of less than 0.5% to make it to Westminster.

Overall, the Greens managed 13.1% of the primary vote in Victoria, a swing of 2.3% towards them, compared with 8.91% of the primary vote and a swing of less than 1% in NSW.

The Guardian examined the backgrounds of candidates in the most marginal seats – those that would require a swing of less than 5% of take a seat – as well as those with retiring MPs of the same party.

Labour needs just two gains on a swing of less than 1% to wrest control of Coventry and it could reclaim Wolverhampton from the current position of no overall control.

But today the party's conference rejected a motion that would have meant that, in future, at least one black or minority ethnic member would have had to have been included on the shortlist whenever a sitting Lib Dem MP resigned, in any byelections, and in any constituency where the Lib Dems required a swing of 5% or less to win the seat.

Now think about it: A swing of only 100,000 votes or less in last year's presidential election could have put Hillary Clinton in the White House, not Donald Trump.

Yet the net swing, of less than 1% of GDP, is far too small to overcome the euro area's domestic headwinds.

If there's a trend coming, it's a swing of the parenting pendulum back towards the less stressful and the more relaxed.

Marginal seats - of which there is no fixed definition, but which can be seen as seats with majorities of 10% or less that require a swing of 5% for the incumbent party to lose - matter.