clear majority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofclearandmajority
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clear
adjective
uk/klɪər/us/klɪr/
easy to understand, hear, read, ...
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majority
noun
uk/məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/us/məˈdʒɔː.rə.t̬i/
the larger number or part ...
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(Definition ofclearandmajorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Aclearmajoritysaid that opportunities still existed for learning progression (75%) and in achieving a sensible coverage of the curriculum (85%).
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Among 'real' questions aclearmajorityare interrogative, in that they are direct and factual in nature.
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Aclearmajorityof the occurring instances of mismatch that belong here are of the symmetrical kind.
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Note that aclearmajorityof 'periphrastic' examples of do are habitual even if examples like (29a-b) are rejected.
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There was a struggle to dismiss the government, which had just won aclearmajorityin the elections.
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With 248 seats, the party needed only three more seats for aclearmajorityin parliament.
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Theclearmajorityof unclassified men had 2 or fewer of these problems.
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Accordingly, aclearmajority(68 per cent) was unsatisfied.
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When responses to these two non-democratic alternatives were considered together, aclearmajorityof 71 per cent rejected both alternatives to democracy.
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Aclearmajority(61 per cent) reported feeling at least some amount of empowerment under the present system of government.
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If many authors of economic literature of the period were unknown, indeed often aclearmajority, usually historians of that literature survey only known authors.
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Similarly, aclearmajority(67%) disagreed with the statement that their family imposed a lot of restrictions on them.
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Although the main pattern is the emergence of a dominant party, in a smaller number of countries a party system has emerged with noclearmajorityparty.
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Linen goods make up aclearmajorityof all the textiles pawned, with woollen items the next most common commodities.
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Table 6 shows that aclearmajorityof farmers (61 per cent) were married at the time of transmission if we look at the entire period.
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In addition, if we add up the population groups of the three countries, this makes aclearmajority.
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In 2003, aclearmajorityvoted against participating in it.
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There has been a significant increase in their circulation and theclearmajoritysupport reform.
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Aclearmajorityof those—from all parties and none—who were appointed to the other place on their own merit, voted for the closed list.
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