Example sentences of "many children [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It denounced the idea that gratification is the end of sex , but said that parents have the duty of choosing how many children they have . |
| 2 | The society 's questionnaire would disclose whether the applicant was single or living with someone , what type of relationship they were in , and how many children they planned . |
| 3 | The head of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Helmut Ricke , urged the government and opposition to strike a deal in crucial talks next week on the privatisation of the state-owned concern , Reuter reports from Bonn : the talks between the government and the Social Democratic opposition are due to resume May 14 : politicians on both sides of the debate , which resumed last month , agree a decision must be reached before the Bundestag 's summer recess on July 3 or there wo n't be enough time in the legislative calendar to pass the bill before next year 's parliamentary elections ; TeleKom finance director Joachim Kroeske complained to the Wall Street Jorunal that ‘ We have an organisation more like a bureaucracy than a real company — we have civil servants with lifetime employment , high pensions and salaries that correspond to the length of service and how many children they have . ’ |
| 4 | The lady in question was married to a lawyer who , in spite of being a writer to the signet , must have been singularly incompetent , for , as Gorthie remarked , ‘ he 's a senseless fellow that can make no shift for her and a great many children they have ’ . |
| 5 | But when couples were asked how many children they were likely to have in reality , bigger social class differences became apparent . |
| 6 | Neither Simon nor Hilary have decided how many children they want . |
| 7 | Similarly , when in the late 1930s a leading obstetrician asked women in Aberdeen how many children they would like to have , he received the response : ‘ Aye Doctor , I shall have me number ’ . |
| 8 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 9 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 10 | In societies that place a high value upon children and childbearing ( and in many others as well ) , women may not be able to determine independently when they will marry , whether and when they will use non-traditional means of birth regulation or how many children they will have . |
| 11 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 12 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 13 | You would mark down how many children she had and her circumstances . |
| 14 | She asked Ellen how many children she was prepared to take . |
| 15 | It is a truism that every woman wants to be able to choose how many children she has . |
| 16 | Do you know how many children she 's got ? |
| 17 | The one thing that really marks them out is good preparation , so that when they stand up in court they have n't got to think much about the content cos it 's at their finger tips , they know it , they know Mrs Brown 's age , they know how many children she 's got , they have n't got to think about it . |
| 18 | But when Betty Bonham was asked by the Queen just how MANY children she 'd fostered … she could n't remember . |
| 19 | There are many children I know who live around me as they are my neighbours . |
| 20 | She then admits she does n't know the difference between the head line and the heart line , although she 's able to identify the little crinkle at the side of the hand that tells you how many children you 're going to have . |
| 21 | And when the wedding 's gon na be and what you 're gon na wear and what you 're going to go there in and how many children you 're gon na have and how many years you 're gon na be married . |