Sentence examples for close to a majority. from inspiring English sources
A: We are close to a majority.
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.
There won&apos t be close to a majority of the majority.
He has never, ever won over anything close to a majority of the American electorate.
It suggests that a coalition between the two left parties could yield 174 seats - tantalisingly close to a majority.
An Obama victory thus would move the Senate Democrats, at present outnumbered fifty-one to forty-eight, one seat closer to a majority.
May is getting a bit closer to a majority: on Tuesday, Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory arch-Brexiteer who has dismissed her deal, airily and often, as giving too much away to Europe, said that he would vote for it, after all.
That is because there is nothing close to a conservative majority in the United States.
No single party has ever come close to a commanding majority in Congress, so support is bought with cabinet posts and/or cash.
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.
