Example sentences of "men over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As the Warriors moved on , the section commanders continued to tell their men over the vehicle briefing system what they were to do and what they should expect . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But a look at the scenery is out of the question for the hard men over the top . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 7 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 8 | Data from the 1931 to 1961 Censuses and from the Ministry of Social Security for 1966 showed a continuous decline in the percentage of men over the age of 65 in full-time paid employment ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 9 | It is clear from data on occupations drawn from the decennial censuses that retirement for men over the age of 65 was increasing from 1881 , almost thirty years before the introduction of a state pension ; and modern evidence from the United States gives good grounds for believing that , in some circumstances at least , changes in retirement age over time represent a supply-side factor , with people choosing retirement before they become incapable of work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During the pre-liberation troubles between India and Goa it was no longer possible to bring men over the frontier , therefore , instead of breaking with tradition , the family ceased to use the palanquins . |
| 12 | An increased share of temporary workers does , however , become apparent for women over the age of 60 and men over the age of 65 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The cotton industry also flourished in industrial villages and small company towns so that by 1851 almost 17 per cent of Lancashire men over the age of twenty and 15 per cent of women worked at the manufacture of cotton . |