Example sentences of "of women use " in BNC.

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1 Having said this , millions of women use tampons and the majority keep them in at night .
2 Nearly three out of four adults own a video recorder but only one third of women use them without any problems , compared with two thirds of men and half of children .
3 In Mauritania , for instance , where only one per cent of women uses contraception , the average number of children born to a woman is only 6.25 and the number surviving is even fewer .
4 Perhaps the tremendous upsurge of female creativity over the last hundred years or so , particularly in the fields of literature and art , may be connected with the increasing desire of women to use for themselves ‘ the light principle ’ .
5 However , there may be another implication echoing the age-old drive of women to use the night for expressing a forceful , magical side of nature which the social customs of day prohibit .
6 A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) .
7 The National Fertility Survey found that out of the total of women using contraception , 52.5% had been sterilized .
8 An estimated 270 million women are currently using some form of contraception , but this figure and the table below are likely to underestimate — by a wide margin — the numbers of women using traditional methods .
9 Two-thirds of women using the injectable , Depo-Provera , experience what has been dubbed ‘ menstrual chaos ’ in the first year , some bleeding so frequently and profusely that they have to receive transfusions .
10 A number of women used the centre on the Cowley Road , which is an Oxford City Council owned building .
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