Example sentences of "majority of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electorate increased , party battles became much more intense and the vast majority of divisions in the House became party divisions in that over nine-tenths of the party voted as the whips indicated . |
| 2 | In the development of illness , therefore , a combination of external and internal factors is involved in the majority of cases in the production of the original imbalance , and this imbalance can occur on any level , depending on the main thrust of the external stress . |
| 3 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 4 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 5 | There is , for example , virtually no economic justification for retaining any hedgerows at all on the majority of farms in the southern and eastern counties of England . |
| 6 | As is the case in the majority of countries in the world , none of the countries in the Common Market ( with the exception of Southern Ireland ) recognizes venereology or genito-urinary medicine as a distinct specialty . |
| 7 | A majority of materials in the Earth 's crust are silicates with molecules comprising four oxygen atoms linked to one atom of silicon . |
| 8 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 9 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 10 | I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The majority of footballers in the so-called ‘ glamour ’ clubs have been overpaid and underworked for years , and if some of them were paid what they were worth , they would owe something . |
| 12 | The study found that the majority of takeovers in the EC outside the UK took place between non-listed or private companies and that , once agreement was reached between the parties , the barriers to takeovers were relatively low . |
| 13 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 14 | The difficulties outlined above are overcome by the majority of builders in the terms and conditions under which labour-only subcontractors are employed . |
| 15 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders , in line with the majority of respondents in the ‘ other ’ category , supported the maintenance of the status quo as expressed in the question . |
| 16 | Until the past decade , however , the vast majority of specialists in the period had not known of her existence . |
| 17 | The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers . |
| 18 | The ‘ culture of contentment ’ — Galbraith might equally have used the phrase ‘ culture of complacency ’ — is the prevailing majority of electors in the US , UK and other advanced economies . |
| 19 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 20 | And since the vast majority of children in the UK are lucky enough to eat a balanced diet , there 's no worry about your own child falling short on intelligence . |
| 21 | It is in this area that the majority of jobs in the personal communicator industry will likely be created , he said . |
| 22 | Latvia alone , without much national tradition before 1917 , gave the Bolsheviks an absolute majority of votes in the elections to the Constituent Assembly . |
| 23 | Having been accepted as the burgh nominee , one still had to obtain a majority of votes in the District Election . |
| 24 | He won the majority of votes in the Afro-Mauritanian south as well as in the capital , and in the Trarza region where the influence of the maraboutic orders ( of Moslem holy men ) remained strong . |
| 25 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 26 | According to official Labour Party policy , any change in the status of Northern Ireland will require the consent of the majority of people in the province . |
| 27 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 28 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 29 | I have concentrated on mortgage arrears and repossessions above , but it 's worth remembering that the HBAI report reminds us that the majority of people in the lowest 10% rely on rented accommodation . |
| 30 | sentiments of the majority of people in the borough … |