Sentence examples for half of election from inspiring English sources

Across the first five weeks of the campaign, less than half of election news airtime on all five main broadcasters centred on policy, with the BBC dedicating the most time – 48.6%– compared with Channel 4's 43.8% and ITV's 40.2%.

So let's see how the 43 variables rank: The first thing to notice is that no individual economic variable has an r-squared higher than.46, meaning that none can explain more than half of election results in the post-war period.

The major parties have each won the popular vote in half of all presidential elections since 1968 and half of elections since 1896.

The conservative United Front of Principlists (UFP) has claimed that half of its election lists have been agreed.

If the economy is perceived to be deteriorating in the first half of an election year, it may be very difficult for a sitting president to change voter sentiment.

When the economy is growing at a healthy clip, particularly during the first half of an election year, the party in control of the White House tends to keep control.

House members also know they stand for election every two years, which not only means never-ending fundraising, but the sure knowledge that half of their elections will take place in so-called "off-year" elections.

Even though workers in unionized companies make more money, have better benefits, and are protected from arbitrary termination, in about half of the elections the majority of workers vote against having a union.

Fiorina, by her own admission, has not even bothered to vote in more than half of the elections she has been eligible to vote in over the past 20 years.

"We consistently find that 20-30% of voters either change their mind within a week of casting their ballot, about half of them on election day itself," the report says.

The prospect of weeks of debate in Congress about granting President Bush the authority to oust Saddam Hussein means that events abroad, rather than the domestic issues pushed by Democrats this summer, could dominate the nation's political discussion for easily half of the general election campaign this fall.