Example sentences of "of women live " in BNC.
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1 | When divided into two — stable residence consisting of council and owner occupied housing , and unstable consisting of private rented , lodging , and hostel accommodation and no fixed abode — 76 per cent of women lived in stable accommodation compared with 63 per cent of men . |
2 | The morning engagements Thrush Green could readily understand , for a man living alone could not be expected to polish and clean , to cook and scrub , and to wash and iron for himself ; though , as Ella pointed out , plenty of women lived alone and did all that with one hand tied behind them , and often went out to work as well into the bargain , and no one considered it remarkable . |
3 | Literacy in Sinhala and Tamil was more widespread ; about forty-five per cent of men but only ten per cent of women living in Sinhala Sri Lanka were literate in any one language . |
4 | By contrast , only about 27 per cent of women living alone had an occupational pension . |
5 | A recent study of women living in Camberwell , South London , found that living in the isolation of the family with small children , in poor and overcrowded housing conditions , was a major cause of depression ( Brown and Harris , 1970 ) . |
6 | So far as I am concerned , arguments that women 's studies should include management training and courses to help women to be more assertive and successful in public life ( like Margaret Thatcher ? ) do n't have very much to say about how the majority of women live our lives . |
7 | 39% of women live in countries where abortion is freely available . |