Example sentences of "man and [adj] for " in BNC.
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1 | It was the authority–s policy , and an implied term of the applicant 's contract of employment , that employees retired at the age when they became entitled to draw the state retirement pension , this being aged 65 for a man and 60 for a woman . |
2 | The payment is calculated as one and a half week 's pay for each year of continuous employment over the age of 40 up to 65 for a man and 60 for a woman , one week 's pay for each year between the ages of 22 and 40 , and half a week 's pay for each year between the ages of 18 and 21 . |
3 | The median age of responders was 22 and the maximum age was 67 for men and 56 for women ( fig 1 ) . |
4 | The Health Education Authority in the UK currently recommends three drinks a day for men and two for women . |
5 | The medical Royal Colleges recently agreed that 21 measures a week for men and 14 for women is sensible . |
6 | The recommended weekly maximum is 21 units for men and 14 for women . |
7 | The average length of employment of all labour in 1982 was correspondingly double in Japan at eight to eleven years for men and six for women . |
8 | Symptom scores were normally distributed for both sexes around a mean of 2.20 for men and 2.39 for women . |
9 | Britain is 20th in the table with 71.4 years for men and 77.2 for women . |
10 | In addition to the 14 Japanese competitors , there were 17 training partners and coaches for the men and 11 for the women — and most were past Olympic or world champions . |
11 | It thus recommended that the age should ultimately be raised to 68 for men and 63 for women . |
12 | In the individual fighting categories there are ten weight divisions for men and eight for women . |
13 | The memorandum ( endorsed by the National Joint Advisory Council representing the British Employers ' Confederation , the TUC , and the nationalized industries ) identified as the essential problem the provision of a place in society for the ever-growing proportion of elderly persons and suggested that : ‘ Age sixty-five for men and sixty for women ought no longer to be regarded as ‘ normal retiring age ’ ' . |
14 | Today it has risen by more than twenty years , to 72 for men and 77 for women , and it is still rising . |
15 | Since around 1960 incidence rates nearly doubled in men and tripled in women , and most recent data ( 1983–7 ) give incidence rates of 0.38/100000 for men and 0.74/100000 for women ( world standardised ) . |
16 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
17 | Estimated five yearly inceptions were 26/1000 for men and 18/1000 for women . |
18 | This gives five year detection rates of at least 26/1000 for men and 18/1000 for women in the age group 20–39 , so high arterial pressure in young adults is much commoner than has generally been supposed . |
19 | The result was that the proportion of the population over the age at which state pensions can now be drawn ( 65 years for men and 60 for women ) , increased over the eighty-year period from about one in twenty ( 5 per cent ) to over one in six ( about 18 per cent ) . |
20 | If you are over pension age ( 65 for men and 60 for women ) you do not need to pay national insurance contributions . |
21 | At present these are 65 for men and 60 for women . |
22 | During the 1950s and early 1960s , retirement at the statutory pensionable age of 60 for men and 65 for women became widely established across occupations and social classes , although least at the highest status-levels . |
23 | The previous age limits had stood at 35 for men and 30 for women . |
24 | Though I respect the teachings of Islam I do n't understand how there can be one law for men and another for women . |
25 | The LNA launched a dual offensive , attacking both the medical profession and the double-standard on which the acts were premised : ‘ the false idea that there is one code of morality for men and another for women … which has more or less coloured and shaped the whole of our social life . ’ |
26 | John Housden , of Hill Samuel , and Lesley Dunbar , of Life Association of Scotland , both cite 40 for men and 35 for women as the pivotal ages under the new rebate . |