Example sentences of "car ownership " in BNC.
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| 1 | People choose to spend a high proportion of their disposable income on buying and running a car because car ownership enhances their lives . |
| 2 | There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership , too . |
| 3 | Total traffic is related to general economic variables such as GDP and car ownership . |
| 4 | Car ownership per 100 of population . |
| 5 | This distorts the car ownership per 100 of the population to a low level compared with other countries . |
| 6 | This is a pattern of car ownership without parallel in the world . |
| 7 | In the Sixties , car ownership did rocket , but since then the social graph has levelled off . |
| 8 | Transportation , the most buoyant sector since 1960 , will lower its share from some 18% in 1983 to 17% as a result of further progress in fuel efficiency improvements and slower growth in car ownership . |
| 9 | Since car ownership diminishes with age and since many older women can not drive , a clear form of discrimination emerges in the sense that such people suffer restricted opportunities to travel and are less able to enjoy the benefit of greater choice and lower prices . |
| 10 | However traffic conditions were changing in the Fifties as car ownership increased , both reducing passengers and increasing road traffic at the same time . |
| 11 | Changing work patterns , social habits and a growth of car ownership have affected all public transport , but the tramway has enhanced its tourist value as it has become unique . |
| 12 | In addition , paid holiday entitlements are more generous , having increased from 2 weeks in 1963 to 4 or more weeks in 1985 ( Geofile No 118 1988 ) , car ownership is more common giving greater access to the countryside and greater affluence means that finance is available for enjoyment purposes . |
| 13 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 14 | From their point of view living in physical isolation in a rural district is by no means a problem , not only because of the high level of local car ownership , but because they , unlike the planners , do not confuse the idea of social cohesion with the notion of geographical proximity . |
| 15 | For example , car ownership is frequently used as an indicator of affluence . |
| 16 | But in inner-city areas , car ownership is lower than would be expected on the basis of affluence , given both the very small average household size and the better availability of public transport . |
| 17 | However , as the widened roads generated traffic to fill the space and as post-war prosperity spread car ownership , so the ‘ solution ’ of forcing larger volumes of traffic along urban streets led to ever-increasing congestion , public agitation and governmental concern . |
| 18 | Moreover , whilst it is true that the great popularity of the environmental improvements in the centres has turned attention towards restraining traffic in other areas , it is also clear that as car ownership and use rises , there is no political consensus for banning cars in the rest of the city . |
| 19 | Car ownership per household figures for the Knutsford municipal area are as follows : |
| 20 | Car ownership levels in Cheshire are markedly above the British average . |
| 21 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 22 | These changes , together with a greater mobility in the workforce made possible by an expansion of car ownership , created a vacuum . |
| 23 | The deprivation score was derived from a combination of four variables ( car ownership , social class , male unemployment , and overcrowding ) . |
| 24 | Differences in other socioeconomic indicators ( education , housing tenure , car ownership , and father 's occupation ) by grade of employment have been described . |
| 25 | The questionnaire included personal details ( age , sex , current grade of employment , ethnic group , marital status , years of full time education , highest level of education , partner 's and father 's occupation , housing tenure , and car ownership ) ; health ( self rated health over the past 12 months , presence of longstanding illness , and presence of recurring health problems based on questions used in the general household survey , and presence of psychiatric symptoms based on the 30 item general health questionnaire ) ; health related behaviours ( current smoking habits , usual frequency of alcohol consumption in past 12 months , and amount of alcohol consumed in the past seven days ) ; psychosocial work characteristics ( assessed with a 67 item questionnaire based on the occupational strain model of job demands and decision latitude which included questions on control , variety and use of skills , and work pace as proposed by Karasek , support at work , and job satisfaction ) ; social circumstances outside work ( number of dependent children , social contact with relatives and friends , and personal difficulties such as financial problems ) ; and types of social support ( assessed by 15 self report questions on up to four nominated close friends or relatives ) . |
| 26 | However , participants ' living circumstances — for example , housing tenure and car ownership — were similar to those in comparable socioeconomic groups in national surveys ( Department of Employment , personal communication 1987 ) . |
| 27 | Car ownership was expected to increase ‘ at a very much faster rate than population ’ ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Vol. 114 ) . |
| 28 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 29 | It was also very convenient , in the days before widespread car ownership . |
| 30 | The widespread growth of car ownership enabled people to commute often substantial distances to their places of work . |