Example sentences of "living alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |
| 2 | In 1989 , only 7.8% of pensioners who were mainly dependent on state pensions and living alone had a car . |
| 3 | In her letter of 21 August , Ms Greengross referred to the 1989 Family Expenditure Survey which found that 25% of retired people living alone mainly dependent on the state pension do not have a telephone and linked this ‘ poor level of penetration among people who need a telephone most … to the policy of increasing rental and connection charges to the maximum permitted by the retail price index ( RPI ) + 2% price cap , while targeting businesses and heavy residential users for international call rate reductions and volume discounts ’ . |
| 4 | If there is someone living alone , who is retired and their income drops , they will pay less . ’ |
| 5 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 6 | The likelihood of living alone is greatest among the most elderly , particularly for women . |
| 7 | The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The likelihood of living alone is greatest among the most elderly , particularly for women . |
| 9 | In 1988 50% of all people aged over 75 lived alone , however , only 29% of men aged 75+ were living alone , compared to 61% of women ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Elderly couple households fare much the same as all households , but elderly persons living alone are much less likely to benefit from such goods . |
| 11 | But one of the great changes from the past is that this possibility of living alone is swiftly becoming a probability . |
| 12 | ‘ Living alone such a lot makes one over-interested perhaps in one 's natural functions . ’ |
| 13 | Winnie 's natural nervousness about living alone continued , until one happy day when Jenny , her friend and daily help , arrived looking excited . |
| 14 | The popularly held view of old age today is of very old people , usually women , living alone , socially isolated , managing on inadequate incomes , poorly housed , suffering ill health , dependent on younger carers , yet isolated from their families . |
| 15 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 16 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
| 17 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 18 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 19 | Neighbour of sufferer living alone , 2nd Interview |
| 20 | The three characteristics were : an OBS score of eight or more , living alone , and without a closely involved informal carer ( only one of the control sample clients still at home at one year possessed all three of these characteristics ) . |
| 21 | When the truth of the relationship together is faced , the prospect of living alone suddenly ceases to be unbearable . |
| 22 | Other advantages of living alone are having time and space for myself to read , write , draw , think , learn , do what I feel is right for myself . |
| 23 | Living alone , with no electricity , no water on tap , one cow and a calf , and an income of £280 a year — ‘ if things go well ’ . |
| 24 | What is more , owing to various factors , the number of people living alone is growing . |
| 25 | They may start out their adult life living alone , spend some of their middle years living alone , or end their days living alone . |
| 26 | They may start out their adult life living alone , spend some of their middle years living alone , or end their days living alone . |
| 27 | Living alone does not mean solitary confinement . |
| 28 | Everyone who lives alone makes the breakthrough when they realise that living alone is not a prison sentence or a state to be endured . |
| 29 | It is an ideal situation , when living alone , that you should enjoy your own company , but you should also balance this with forays into the outside world , otherwise solitude becomes loneliness and seclusion becomes a state of imprisonment . |
| 30 | There is little to say about this except that if living alone is a new experience for you you will tend to buy too much at first and waste a lot unless you cook and freeze . |