noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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big
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On Whit Bank Holiday we had a big turnout of 24 member volunteers.
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So you may see a pretty good turnout for him.
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Chase Manhattan and Chemical Banking -- engaged to merge before March -- also had good turnouts .
high
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The high turnout means that Khatami has another chance.
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Last winter, I suggested giving the early primaries to the states with the highest voter turnout in the prior presidential election.
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The high turnout will boost the beleaguered opposition leaders.
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The constituency saw the highest fall in turnout in the province from 72% in 1973 to 61% in 1975.
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Or did the high turnout suggest a letting off of steam after three intense years of flood recovery?
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Their analysis is: get real, the high electoral turnouts and mass parties of the postwar period were an aberration.
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The highest turnout rate in the past 60 years came in the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon race when 62. 8 percent turned out.
low
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This constituency had, with Belfast West, the lowest turnout of voters in the Province at 59%.
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Wilson attributed the low turnout to the networks.
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Both rounds were marked by a very low turnout , with only 20.87 percent of the electorate participating in the second round.
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Another factor cited for low voter turnout by young people was their greater mobility.
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By-elections are marked by spectacularly low turnouts , sometimes less than 30%.
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The lower turnout came despite a surge in voter registration around the nation.
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There was a relatively low turnout of just over 60 percent.
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But Labour's huge landslide on a low turnout of 59 % leaves Britain with the worst of all worlds.
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voter
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A voter turnout of 59 percent of some 13,300,000 registered voters was recorded for the Dec. 26 poll.
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Last winter, I suggested giving the early primaries to the states with the highest voter turnout in the prior presidential election.
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Participation is measured using voter turnout , or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections.
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Heavy voter turnout has been predicted for the first primary of 1996.
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The official figure for voter turnout was over 1,600,000 people, representing just over 90 percent of those registered to vote.
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The 1996 presidential election, costliest in history, produced the lowest percentage of voter turnout since 1824.
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Yet statistics show voter turnout sliding down.
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Outside groups also will be pushing voter turnout .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Turnout for the game was lighter than expected.
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There was an unusually high turnout in the election, nearly twice the number predicted.
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These shows are always popular, and we're expecting a big turnout .
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We had a much better turnout for the company picnic this year than last.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the national turnout was officially given as 60 percent, the elections were marked by a high rate of regional abstention.
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Chase Manhattan and Chemical Banking -- engaged to merge before March -- also had good turnouts.
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I thought the turnout was good: 3, 100 members voting out of 11, 000 or so.
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Last winter, I suggested giving the early primaries to the states with the highest voter turnout in the prior presidential election.
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One is that the pollsters overlooked the potential effect of differential turnout .
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Participation is measured using voter turnout , or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections.
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The turnout in the four referendums was between 39 and 40 percent.
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Yet statistics show voter turnout sliding down.