Example sentences of "women who [vb past] their " in BNC.
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1 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
2 | For example , Phoenix , in her study of women who had their first child between the age of 16 and 19 , argued that contrasting the lives of Black and white women did little to illuminate their experiences of becoming a mother ( Phoenix , 1991 ) . |
3 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |
4 | But at that time , too , women who reached their mid-forties were frequently exhausted by constant child-bearing and hard physical work . |
5 | Edwin Pettigrew was , like his sister , of sandy colouring , a kindly-looking man more interested in animals than in human beings , though he was an expert at calming and reassuring the agitated and often hysterical women who brought their animals to see him . |
6 | All women who experienced their first ever episode of symptomatic cholelithiasis ( International Classification of Diseases , 8th revision ( ICD-8 code 574 ) or cholecystitis ( ICD-8 code 575 ) were included in this analysis . |
7 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
8 | Women who made their own preserves were able to obtain extra sugar in lieu of their jam ration . |
9 | The results are a blow for women who thought their long and hard-fought campaign would guarantee success . |
10 | And often it was the women who sacrificed their own needs to satisfy those of the rest of the family . |
11 | The highest frequency was recorded for women who bore their first child ( nulliparous ) at ages 35–39 ( 14 per cent ) . |
12 | I spoke to a number of women who started their working lives in the grant-aided film and video sector , to find out whether the personal choices they had made could be given any wider significance . |
13 | The Black Land had never condemned men or women who loved their own kind , or those who crossed the frontiers between loving those of the same and the opposite sex ; but minorities formed fraternities , and members of the clubs would do each other good turns when they could . |
14 | Men and women who rated their jobs as low for control , variety and use of skills , pace , support at work , or satisfaction had higher rates of short and long spells of sickness absence compared with those who rated their jobs high for these characteristics . |
15 | Books of Remembrance record the names of over 125,000 and women who gave their lives in the Service , and Roll of Honour commemorates over 19,000 US airmen who died on active service while serving in the UK . |
16 | The likelihood of influence by a husband over his wife and of reliance by a wife on her husband to make the business decisions for the family was the justification in the first place for the tenderness of equity towards married women who gave their property as security for their husband 's debts . |
17 | Their daughters now in their sixties , fifties and forties , were the post-war generations of married women who found their way back into waged work , who disrupted the equation between the breadwinner and masculinity which has been inscribed in both the wage system and in the state 's system of income support . |