Sentence examples for gain of two from inspiring English sources

Labour made a net gain of two in Bristol at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

The Senate, where the Democrats require a net gain of two seats to win control, is more finely balanced.

But as soon as she returned home, the disordered eating and insomnia recurred, along with a weight gain of two pounds a week.

In November, the Democrats had a net gain of two seats, closing in on Republicans for the third election cycle in a row.

In November, the Democrats had a net gain of two seats, chipping away at the Republican majority for the third election in a row.

A gain of two or three points for Mr. Obama in the polls, for instance, would very probably have become obvious by now.

A word of caution on jobs: the bilateral nature of trade suggests the president's goal on exports, even if reached, might not produce the net gain of two million jobs he prophesied.

The average stock displayed a token gain of two-tenths of 1percentt, according to the publication Going Public: The IPO Reporter.

Stocks did rise modestly yesterday -- the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 13.95, to 7,978.99, a gain of two-tenths of 1percentt.

The November increase in operating rates was the first since a gain of two-tenths of a percentage point left industry operating at 79.2percentt of capacity in July.

Productivity in the business sector of the economy slumped by 3.1percentt in the fourth quarter, resulting in a sluggish gain of two-tenths of 1percentt for 1985, the Labor Department reported today.