bare majority

collocation in English

meaningsofbareandmajority

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bare
adjective
uk
/beər/us
/ber/
without any clothes or not covered ...
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majority
noun
uk
/məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/us
/məˈdʒɔː.rə.t̬i/
the larger number or part ...
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(Definition ofbareandmajorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The party's parliamentary seats plunged even more spectacularly from abaremajorityof 151 at dissolution (of 295 seats) to just two.
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And even in this case, they represent abaremajority, somewhat smaller than the number of non-voters who are either residentially mobile or young.
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Indeed, abaremajority(50.4 per cent) places themselves on the positive, 'cultural enrichment' side of the scale.
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The qualifier 'sufficiently' is necessary because abaremajorityof positive affect might not suffice for happiness.
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Without the mandate this margin is reduced to 50-36, jeopardizing some liberal wins by bringing the liberal vote close to abaremajority.
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The members appointed by local authorities are to have abaremajority.
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Abaremajorityof those who happen to vote, and they may be a small minority of the whole electorate, can carry a "no-licence" resolution.
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Even though it had abaremajority, what did it, in fact, recommend?
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I think on most education committees the members of the council amount to much more than abaremajority.
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It is allowing thebaremajorityto judge the concerns of others.
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If it requires a two-thirds majority on this question, why trust abaremajorityin regard to other things?
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But the worst way of solving the problem is to allow abaremajorityof one to carry financial proposals of a most important character.
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They rather grudgingly agreed to abaremajorityof local authority members on the authorities.
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We believe that it is right that more than abaremajoritywould qualify.
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Abaremajorityis not a substantial group of parents.
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I do not think that in any country in the world, except this, it is possible to alter the constitution by abaremajority.
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But any attempt to do a thing of that sort by abaremajoritywould inevitably end in failure.
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The minor concession is that each regional authority is now to have abaremajorityof local authority representatives.
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I agree that a substantial minority ought not to be overruled by abaremajority.
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Of those questioned, 122 were in favour of abolishing hereditary titles altogether, and that is abaremajorityof those questioned.
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