Van Buren won a majority of the votes — one hundred and forty-six. But that was not enough.

范布伦获得了多数票，即146票，但这还不够三分之二。

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The majority of global consumers really believe life starts at forty, " AC Nielsen Europe President and CEO Frank Martell said."

所以，大多数全球消费者认为40岁才是美好生活的开始。

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Marx is the 19th century people, but he predicts the future of the world more than forty problems, the vast majority are right.

马克思是十九世纪的人，但是他猜测未来世界的四十多个问题，绝大多数都是对的。

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Forty-one percent of U.S. adults use the majority of their vacation budgets on obligation trips such as weddings, holiday gatherings and reunions, according to a July Hotwire survey.

CNN: Is obligation gobbling up your vacation?

In 2006 and 2008, sixteen Democrats entered the Senate, giving the Party its current majority of fifty-nine to forty-one (counting two independents).

NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

In the early nineteen-sixties, two psychologists, David Palermo and James Jenkins, began amassing a huge table of word associations, the first thoughts that come to mind when people are asked to reflect on a particular word. (They interviewed more than forty-five hundred subjects.) Palermo and Jenkins soon discovered that the vast majority of these associations were utterly predictable.

NEWYORKER: Groupthink