Sentence examples for vote of about from inspiring English sources

(I appeared as the negative guest speaker)." Buckley believed that the notion of the motion was "preposterous," but he lost the debate by a vote of about 3-to-1.

He was able to capture the vote of about 55 percent of independents..

The document was approved in a referendum by a vote of about 10,000 to 5,000 Oct . 4 , 1859.

One other board member, Rajiv Gupta, the former C.E.O. of Rohm and Haas and a board member since 2009, received a positive vote of about 80 percent.

The company pointed to a provision in its bylaws requiring a supermajority vote of about 67percenttoto seat more than two directors.

Mr. Huang's resolutions to oust Mr. Chen — who was once his protégé — as well as the company vice president, Sun Yiding, were both defeated by a vote of about 52 percent to 48 percent.

In Oregon, which had a mail-in ballot, nearly 99percentt of the votes have been counted, and Mr. Gore leads by 4,765 votes out of about 1.4 million cast.

He lost by about 3,000 votes out of about 19,000.

He won by a margin of 624 votes out of about 160,000.

Mr. Gianforte took slightly more than 50percentt of the vote to about 44percentt for Mr. Quist.

Mr. Bush won this county in 2000 by only about 1,100 votes of about 162,000 cast.