Example sentences of "[adj] men over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 2 | But a look at the scenery is out of the question for the hard men over the top . |
| 3 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 4 | As a Race Today editorial ( in October 1974 ) put it , ‘ the section to benefit most from the trade unions are white men over the age of thirty-five . |
| 5 | In the metal , engineering and shipbuilding trades , which accounted for 12 per cent of the male workforce , 20 per cent of all men over the age of twenty earned less than 22/ and 30.6 per cent less than 25/ , while the notoriously poorly paid male agricultural labourer received an average of 18/4d a week . |
| 6 | In the middle ages , all men over the age of 18 were required on Sunday , after attending church , to participate in archery practice ; it was from those roots that the Territorial Army grew . |
| 7 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |