Example sentences of "women [coord] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures cited included a fall in life expectancy , to 69 years for women and 63 for men in 1992 ; 3,500,000 abortions in state hospitals in 1991 ( compared with 2,500,000 live births ) ; 15 per cent of Russian territory was described as being in a situation of " ecological crisis " . |
| 2 | Life expectancy is falling ( the 1992 figure of 69 years for women and 63 for men compares with UK figures of 78.3 and 72.7 ) . |
| 3 | In public debate marriage can take on a political significance as its supporters and opponents do battle over whether or not it is good for men , good for women and good for society . |
| 4 | Anti-suburbanism continues to be a strand in American feminist thinking ; in Women and the American City , Susan Saegert suggests that suburbs are bad for women and good for men ( Saegert , 1981 ) while Betty Friedan 's classic of the second wave of feminism The Feminine Mystique ( Friedan , 1963 ) and its fictionalised version in Marilyn French 's The Women 's Room ( French , 1978 ) have popularised the American feminist revolt against suburban life . |
| 5 | Japan had the highest figures for longevity ( 82.5 years for women and 76.2 for men ) while the USA rated respectively 16th for women ( 78.6 ) and 23rd for men ( 71.6 ) . |
| 6 | Even allowing for the investment risk of personal pensions , this amounted to a guaranteed gain for younger people and a fairly sound proposition for anyone aged up to about 40 for women and 45 for men . |
| 7 | Parfums Christian Dior , internationally renowned for its quality and vitality , now produces six fragrance lines for women and three for men , as well as a large variety of beauty care products and make-up . |
| 8 | Parfums Givenchy produces and distributes five fragrance lines for women and three for men throughout the world , as well as a children 's cologne . |
| 9 | The employee 's problems arose because by section 82 the ages used for disentitlement were those at which the old age pension was payable — 60 for women and 65 for men . |
| 10 | There are no certainties in the field of demography , but on the assumption that present mortality rates at all ages will not worsen , we can be fairly certain about the absolute numbers of men and women over the present statutory retirement pension age ( 60 for women and 65 for men ) well into the twenty-first century — at least until the 2040s — because all of them are already born . |
| 11 | In more recent years , 60 years of age for women and 65 for men have tended to be the maximum ages at which permanent retirement from the labour force takes place , earnings from current employment cease , and statutory and , in some cases , occupational pensions are drawn . |
| 12 | Except where otherwise stated , the tables derived from the 1979 Survey include all those aged over the statutory retirement age at the time , 60 for women and 65 for men . |
| 13 | This trend has persisted in the 1980s ; by 1989 the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men . |