Sentence examples for close to a majority from inspiring English sources

Unlike previous governments, Thatcher's never commanded anything close to a majority in a general election.

It doesn't have that, but is close to a majority that includes undeclared supporters.

It suggests that a coalition between the two left parties could yield 174 seats - tantalisingly close to a majority.

It has amassed options for several million more shares, which it could convert into close to a majority stake.

In the Senate, Mr Mitchell's hastily assembled scaled-back bill failed to attract anything close to a majority.

No group is holding anything close to a majority, and the deal-making is expected to stretch on for months.

An Obama victory thus would move the Senate Democrats, at present outnumbered fifty-one to forty-eight, one seat closer to a majority.

Reprints Related items Morocco: In his father's shadowApr 6th 2006With four large parties fielding candidates nationwide and dozens more parties mustering local lists, no single party stands a chance of gaining anything close to a parliamentary majority.

The parties' efforts to form a government after national elections on 22 September, in which Merkel's conservatives came close to a parliamentary majority but saw their previous coalition partners lose all their seats, has been the longest in post-second world war Germany.

Certainly her party is that close to an overall majority – the first time since Adenauer in 1957.

"If Winchester goes Conservative, you're very close to an overall majority," says Khalid Aziz, a former regional news anchor and local grandee.