Sentence examples for wave year from inspiring English sources

On Fox News, there were smiles all round, and Karl Rove was saying, "It was a wave year for Republicans".

This would put the House back to where it was after the election of 2010, a so-called wave year, when voter opinion swung strongly to the right.

In 1996, for instance, Democrats narrowly won the House popular vote after having lost in badly in the Republican wave year of 1994.

Likewise, 19 of the 42 Democrats elected to the House for the first time in the Democratic wave year of 2006, or almost half, no longer occupy their seats, despite having had just two elections since then.

She is joined by three new colleagues (Mark Kirk of Illinois, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin) who were elected in the Republican wave year of 2010.

But because of the way districts are configured, their position in the House should be quite robust: it would require a Democratic wave year, and not a merely decent election for Democrats, as in 2012, for Republicans to lose control of the House.

This study used the district-weighted data for Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles from the survey wave years 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

My dad made a glass wave years ago after we'd been on a family holiday to Greece and had seen some beautiful laminated glass in a window display in a jewelery store.

My dad made a glass wave years ago after we'd been on a family holiday to Greece and had seen some beautiful laminated glass in a window display in a jewellery store.

Hames and Vardoulakis (2012) assessed the potential impact of a higher frequency of heat waves on mortality in the United Kingdom by using a 4-year baseline period that included 2 major heat wave years (2003 and 2006).

Even Châteauneufs that I've had from 2003, the heat-wave year in Europe, managed to balance concentrated fruit flavors with the sort of earthy, herbal, leather and tobacco character that I have always enjoyed in Châteauneuf.