Example sentences of "living [prep] the [noun] line " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one combines those living below the SB line with those within 140 per cent of it — i.e. those ‘ on the margins of poverty ’ — low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation . |
| 2 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |
| 3 | In 1986 , 160 million in Latin America and the Caribbean ( 38% of the total population ) were living below the poverty line . |
| 4 | When millions around the world are being killed in war , dying from starvation or living below the poverty line ? |
| 5 | Thus , in a study by Abel-Smith and Townsend ( 1965 ) , a third of the poor were the aged , and almost half the old-age pensioners in their study were living below the poverty line . |
| 6 | Poverty is widespread , with 60 per cent of the population living below the poverty line . |
| 7 | The total number of people living below the poverty line ( $370 per year ) in the ‘ developing ’ world will only decline slightly from present levels ( 1,125 million ) to about 825 millions by 2000 . |
| 8 | A recent UNICEF study had revealed that the proportion of Jordanians living below the poverty line had risen to 30 per cent ( from 20 per cent before the crisis ) . |
| 9 | Genscher announced a DM10,000,000 aid package and additional humanitarian aid to Georgia , where official statistics , reported on Radio Moscow World Service on April 8 , showed that real incomes had fallen by 30 per cent in 1991 and that four-fifths of the population were living below the poverty line . |
| 10 | Despite falling export earnings from oil products , government policy was blamed for modest growth of 2.9 per cent in 1991 , for annual inflation of 50 per cent , for a 30 per cent underemployment rate and the fact that an estimated 70 per cent of the population was living below the poverty line . |
| 11 | There were an estimated 13,000,000 people living below the poverty line ( 1,200 roubles per month ) by the end of June 1992 . |
| 12 | Surveying rural poverty in 114 nations with sizeable rural landholding populations , the report shows that the number of people living below the poverty line has increased by 40 per cent in the past 20 years . |
| 13 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 14 | and we were actually living , living below the poverty line . |
| 15 | Any woman living above the poverty line may choose or refuse to become a surrogate mother , and value judgments of either exploitation by the commissioning parents or of greed on the part of the surrogate mother are misplaced . |
| 16 | A family is living in the firing line of over-enthusiastic golfers because of a planning mistake . |
| 17 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |
| 18 | What do you think the impact is on erm you know a community such as Flats when erm you know , when a majority of the people in the flats , are living on the poverty line , or below it ? |
| 19 | Among those worst affected will be low-income families and pensioners living on the poverty line , the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , said . |