Example sentences of "living longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lifespan of cetaceans varies among species , the larger species generally living longer . |
| 2 | The chief reason for this was that people were living longer . |
| 3 | Although women were living longer than men on average , there remained throughout the century an ‘ accident blackspot ’ for women who bore children . |
| 4 | This might seem inconsistent with the fact that women were living longer , were it not that longer life brought no immediate improvement in their prospects ; it remained a man 's world . |
| 5 | Dogs living longer , multi-dog households and buying two puppies instead of one are all signs of the times . |
| 6 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 7 | It is partly that old people themselves are living longer . |
| 8 | It is above all women who are living longer . |
| 9 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 10 | And today 's generation is living longer than previous generations . |
| 11 | There is a popular view that the rise in the proportion of older people in our society is the consequence of ‘ longevity ’ , of people living longer . |
| 12 | Medical know-how means that people are living longer anyway , though not necessarily in the best of health . |
| 13 | We can measure population fairly precisely ; we can tell whether its rise was due to the birth of more children or to men and women living longer , that is , to a rise in the birth-rate or a fall in the death-rate . |
| 14 | ‘ The funeral parlours , that 's a business , they got to expand , but people 're living longer than before , advances in medicine , right ? |
| 15 | One facile explanation is that with the eradication of the infectious fevers people are living longer , and so are now living into the age groups where chronic diseases start to manifest themselves . |
| 16 | Because people are now living longer in developing countries — from 23 to 41 for average age expectancy since 1850 in India , and from 32 to 43 in Sri Lanka — it is more worthwhile for them to gain greater skills . |
| 17 | The people surrounding it and supporting it — and by now many are living off it — are fitter and are living longer than ever before . |
| 18 | What makes this alarming is that we are all living longer and retiring earlier . |
| 19 | It 's all due to people living longer , marrying later — and more of them divorcing . |
| 20 | OLD folk living longer face an increasingly ‘ grim and painful ’ life , a report warns today . |
| 21 | They are n't — they 're just living longer . ’ |
| 22 | One is that people are living longer than they used to , and it is obviously a help if their teeth last longer too . |
| 23 | People are living longer , and costing the state more in the final years of their lives . |
| 24 | The changing age structure , with people living longer , is producing an increasingly large proportion of elderly households often containing only one person . |
| 25 | For example , people are living longer than they used to . |
| 26 | ‘ But she feels younger , because we 've gone on living longer , ’ said Arthur . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , that is quite different from ‘ living longer ’ . |
| 28 | They 're just , they do n't want them , and yet they 're keeping them living longer ! |
| 29 | People are living longer , and a greater proportion of the population in 1984 consists of older people ( 11.3 per cent aged over 65 in the United States and 14.8 per cent in Britain ) than it did in 1945 ( 7.5 per cent and 10.1 per cent in the United States and Britain , respectively ) . |
| 30 | Firstly people are living longer , there is low infant mortality , but the average age of the population is rising as well . |