Example sentences of "young adults " in BNC.

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1 Whole communities are being shaken by large numbers of deaths among young adults and young children .
2 If young people get used to the idea of the pub being a centre of the community , a place for sensible conversation and for sensible drinking , they are less likely to abuse the pub and its facilities when they become young adults .
3 Meanwhile , the number of young adults in West Germany will decline dramatically .
4 Traditionally , prawn farmers have trapped these young adults ( or ‘ post-larvae ’ as they are called ) and put them into ponds .
5 Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’
6 If you actually show people in much greater need , young adults , they 're not so attractive .
7 Twenty or so young adults armed with pickaxe handles set up a road-block sealing off Sidi Hasan , the Zuwaya ward in the south-west of the town , for two days .
8 The AEC is primarily intended for young adults subject to a probation order with a special condition of attendance ( Schedule 11 4A(II) Criminal Justice Act 1982 ) and reflects the fact that most Somerset offenders in trouble through drink commit serious offences and/or possess a substantial number of previous convictions .
9 Fourth , within 20 years , we will double the number of students in higher education , with at least in three young adults participating by the year 2000 .
10 All-male groups subject to a resistant collection of small stable harems led by assertive young adults may become relatively nomadic and move to areas where the population cycle is in a different phase and contains larger and less stable harems .
11 Nevertheless , the level of population is now approaching a dangerously low level in some areas and this is compounded by the age structure with a relative lack of young adults in the population .
12 Who are the migrants ? with regard to age , they are mostly young adults , who have fewer ties and are therefore more mobile and who are also more likely to be attracted by the ‘ pull ’ factors .
13 A similar situation exists with African migration where especially with the early stages of migration , out-migrants are mostly young adults ( Roberts 1978 ) .
14 His academic interests focus on cancers of young adults , particularly lymphomas and testicular tumours .
15 In any case , teaching English Literature to schoolchildren would only remind her daily of the superior satisfactions of teaching it to young adults .
16 The drug was eventually withdrawn but there are about 300 young adults alive today who were affected .
17 Family and old friends are not necessarily forgotten but distance will naturally make frequent contact less likely and the newly formed unit will take precedence , particularly when the young adults become parents themselves and the whole process begins all over again .
18 Maybe they come to believe , when they are young adults and they receive the acclaim — and the money — which accompanies championship that it was all worth while .
19 The idea was to provide both community facilities for local residents along with a centre for training and employing young adults with physical disabilities .
20 If anything , studies suggest the opposite : children and young adults with crude fantasies of aggression have been found to be more openly aggressive in their behaviour than those whose aggressive fantasies are muted or contain elements indicating that they are as concerned with the dangerous consequences of their aggression as they are with the aggression itself .
21 In the main , sporting accidents affect young adults ; the more challenging and potentially dangerous sports inevitably appeal to people in that age group .
22 For young adults , hazards in the work environment become an added area of responsibility in the AL of maintaining a safe environment and the degree and type of danger vary according to the nature of the work .
23 The once prosperous and profitable industries of West Berlin have declined as young adults moved out to the West proper in droves .
24 Also of note are the cancer deaths among young adults in the districts of Copeland , Barrow and South Lakeland .
25 So , unfortunately , parents and children ( or young adults ) may disagree about what stage has been reached and , consequently , what rights , privileges and responsibilities are now appropriate . ’
26 All parents fit in somewhere along the scale , differing from one another in their handling of the young adults in the family .
27 They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become .
28 In fact , just as the difficult teens are coming to an end , the young adults are off ,
29 The stories are brightly written , they deal with issues that really concern young adults , have convincing and positive heroines , and some of the authors have a gift for comedy .
30 Complaints from young adults about being treated like children come thick and fast :
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