Sentence examples for very small majority from inspiring English sources

Both endorse proposals for an assembly in their country, the Welsh by a very small majority.

A minority Conservative government (or one with a very small majority) may wish to proceed to an EU referendum.

With 50.2% of the vote.' I fear that if Nicolas Sarkozy does win, by a very small majority, things here will become very difficult indeed.

The government has a very small majority so you don't need very many for this to be a problem of parliamentary arithmetic.

He governed for a short period after 1964, when Labour got a very small majority, and after February 1974, when Labour did not have a majority at all, and then went for a second election to seek a stronger position.

Some noted that the government has a very small majority, Theresa May is enduring a difficult period after the Brexit vote and the last thing she or the Tory party need is a byelection.

Jones said governments could still achieve a lot with very small majorities, but conceded the result made the Coalition's work "that little bit harder".

(There's no doubt that John Major, hampered by a very small parliamentary majority, did not prosecute peace in good faith).

"I hope that there will be a much wider conversation and starting much earlier in the policy development process, so that we ought to be able to anticipate problems and difficulties and work together to make sure that we can be as harmonious as possible in the obviously quite difficult confines of a very small parliamentary majority".

The majority (n=301; 59%) worked in major metropolitan areas while a very small minority worked in remote/ very remote (n=17; 3%) areas of Queensland.

As gene regulatory networks, even in these model organisms, are still very incomplete51, a small majority of the genes was not included in any known module (Supplementary Fig. 23).