Example sentences of "men in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ’ — to the men in the second car — ‘ get up and down the road . |
| 2 | Then Paul Rideout 's cynical backheel at Darren Peacock 's head on the stroke of half-time left the Merseysiders with only nine men in the second half . |
| 3 | For Bury was an Army Town ; not like Aldershot or Pirbright : just a modest place which had , at one point in its life , slowly bled to death from the loss of its young men in the First World War . |
| 4 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 5 | It is argued that those , especially feminists , who stress the exploitation of women as carers have failed to take account of the significant numbers of men in the first category . |
| 6 | However , it should also be borne in mind that women , now 80 or more , belong to a generation whose chances of ever marrying were greatly reduced by the loss of eligible young men in the First World War ( 1914–18 ) . |
| 7 | We must examine it to see what sense it can yield us in the case of those who , as it happens , are not men in the first place , and in what way , once this is done , it will have changed its meaning for those who , by no special fault or merit of their own , actually are so . |
| 8 | Do you think the danger in positive discrimination is that er it 's implying that women ca n't compete on equal terms with the men in the first place ? |
| 9 | However , as is widely attested , irrespective of minimum wages , women do tend to earn less than men in the First as well as the Third World . |
| 10 | Between them , Worcester men in the first half of the seventeenth century had at least 100 different occupations . |
| 11 | The family came originally from Northamptonshire , making the transition from small open-field farmers to professional men in the seventeenth century , and its association with the Anglican Church was already three generations old when James was born . |
| 12 | A. Thousands of men in the last century were miners in the west of Cornwall . |
| 13 | It shows , unequivocally , that many men in the last years of their lives do assume roles and perform tasks which have been traditionally associated with women , and it is clear that a substantial number do so with skill and tenderness . |
| 14 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |