Sentence examples for gain a single from inspiring English sources

"No one believes, whether boundary changes happen or not, that Labour will gain a single seat from the Tories.

But most days he skips the lifts to ski under his own power in the backcountry, striding uphill for an hour or more to gain a single run.

Insofar as the logs add to this body of evidence, it will help us to gain a single public inquiry into the UK's detention policy.

"The United States Postal Service will gain a single air transportation provider for most of its express and priority mail," said Frederick W. Smith, president of FedEx.

In the past two and a half years, 1.6 milliseconds have been added to the 24-hour day, Dr. Kotelnikov declared, whereas previous measurements had shown us taking all of 120 years to gain a single millisecond.

When the album was released in May, it failed to gain a single broadsheet newspaper review, while in one magazine the record was pointedly dismissed for its "pompous whimsy".

Aggressive fund-raising by Mr. Torricelli had helped his party gain a single-seat majority in the Senate in 2000, but Democratic leaders warned that his defeat might cost them control.

Outside London the Conservatives have not gained a single seat in any major city.

As it turns out, my exercise regime has worked: I haven't gained a single pound.

Did I feel I gained a single new insight into a play I have seen perhaps 20 times?

His new venture, Dinner, at London's Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, gains a single star in the new guide.