Example sentences of "many of the poor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the middle class respects him , and many of the poor revere him . |
| 2 | Dietary changes also reveal improvements in food consumption patterns , since there has been an increase in the consumption of oils , chicken meat , eggs and milk , which in the past have been beyond the reach of many of the poor . |
| 3 | Since Latin American governments offer no real assistance to the unemployed , many of the poor are compelled to earn a living through irregular and haphazard means . |
| 4 | Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live . |
| 5 | For many of the poor , the novelty of electricity was a symbol of access to a new postwar affluence , though consumption by such consumers typically remained small , and the Boards reckoned that many of these connections would be economic only in the longer run . |
| 6 | The working class in capitalist societies has enjoyed , in the long term , a rise in the standard of living , and labour movements have won enough welfare concessions to ease the lot of many of the poor . |
| 7 | Coates and Silburn 's study ( 1970 ) showed that many of the poor were those without a male breadwinner , and Abel-Smith and Townsend 's study found 10 per cent of the poor belonging to fatherless families . |
| 8 | But for many of the poor , CAP provided the first opportunity to participate in decisions which vitally affected their lives . |
| 9 | As the enclosure movement gained impetus towards the end of the eighteenth century , many of the poor could not afford the fences necessary to confirm their claim to the land , and therefore sold it to the wealthy ; those who could were often unable to raise a living on the poor land they acquired , and sold it too ; those who were squatters had no right to land at all and none to sell . |
| 10 | So many of the poor and the decrepit , the still spinning shrapnel , walking wounded of society . |