Sentence examples for which won almost from inspiring English sources

Unity, which won almost double the votes of Primakov's Fatherland party, later became known as United Russia.

As well as Champagne Fever, she owns another horse called Blackstairmountain, which won almost £500,000 in prize money last week.

At the same time, it won a by-election in South Shields, one of its safest seats, with a much reduced majority largely at the expense of UKIP, which won almost a quarter of the votes there.The Liberal Democrats, junior partners in Mr Cameron's coalition government, were humiliated in South Shields.

Quite what UKIP, which won almost 4m votes or roughly one in eight of those cast now stands for, and what Mr Farage intends for its future, are unclear.Implanting a bit of plain speaking into the Westminster snake pit, which is another of the blokeish UKIP leader's oft-stated ambitions, can at least be crossed off the list.

The role of Helen in Troy, which Kruger won almost immediately after the switch, was, she says now, a mixed blessing.

It was the eighth time the party has lost its deposit since the 2010 general election, in which it won almost a quarter of the vote and 57 seats.

The Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, had been widely expected to perform strongly, but the scale of its success on Saturday — in which it won almost three-quarters of the seats in Parliament — delivered a blow to the Democratic Progressive Party's prospects of retaining power in the March 22 presidential election.

The vote, in which the Kuomintang won almost three-quarters of 113 parliamentary seats, was generally seen as a referendum on Mr. Chen's leadership.

After his playing career ended, he went on to be head coach of the Australian women's hockey team, which under him won almost every top hockey contest in the world, including the Champion's Trophy, the World Cup, the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.

During a calamitous night for the Danish left, a sliver of comfort came in the form of the new Alternative party, formed two years ago to champion a green agenda, which won nine seats with almost 5% of the vote.

His novels — the best-known is "The Elementary Particles" (2000), which won an International Dublin Impac prize — are almost pure id, filled with deadpan prose; joyless coupling, often with prostitutes; and a sometimes thrilling nihilism.