Example sentences of "[adj -er] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sublime but discursive wisdom could be used to camouflage a headlong rush towards an easier life , one in which hard problems are fudged , not faced . |
| 2 | On the other hand it may well be true , as John said , that those with pale skins had an easier life and felt guilty about that . |
| 3 | These pests were a headache at one time , but the modern rose-grower has a much easier life — and there is no excuse ! |
| 4 | All in all , the Teleprocessor is n't very attractive ; for less money you could buy a 386DX , a fax modem card and WinFax Pro , and have an easier life . |
| 5 | She had completely settled into her new , easier life . |
| 6 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 7 | The female moths , it would seem , either have a shorter life span than males , or they are preyed upon while they lay their eggs . |
| 8 | No wonder that poor people living in the traditional way in India and many African countries have a considerably shorter life expectancy than we — with our better living conditions and easily available medicine . |
| 9 | Children with AIDS have a shorter life expectancy than adults . |
| 10 | By contrast the nineteenth century was characterized by a youthful population structure and much shorter life expectancy . |
| 11 | The application of QALY theory would result in old people having less chance of cardiac surgery than younger people for two main reasons : firstly , the operation is likely to have a higher mortality and morbidity for older people ; secondly , older people have in general a shorter life expectancy and therefore fewer life years to gain from the operation . |
| 12 | In the United States research has shown that membership of a social class group predicts a shorter life expectancy and higher death rates from all diseases . |
| 13 | The canals of England had a much shorter life , though many are now gaining a new importance as recreational routeways . |
| 14 | The obese , grades 2 and 3 , especially the young , have a shorter life expectancy , and an increased risk of many illnesses , including diabetes , high blood pressure , heart disease , osteoarthritis , gout , gallstones , reduction in exercise tolerance/level of fitness , and depression . |
| 15 | It is a common fallacy to assume that all blown trees die ; on the contrary , those retaining at least 25 per cent root contact with the soil may well continue to grow , albeit with a shorter life expectancy . |
| 16 | It is a common fallacy that the cheaper , carbon-zinc batteries will do the same job but with a shorter life . |
| 17 | Magnetic and optical media appear to have a shorter life . |
| 18 | The chances are equal either way but as a matter of calculation it can be shown that the impact of the chance of shorter life is of greater significance than that of longer life , end quote . |
| 19 | In a way , he thought , it was a cleaner life being a battery chicken than a free-range , corn-fed chicken . |
| 20 | In principle at least , no one disagreed with Kerschensteiner when he said that the education given should not be ‘ a mere trade or industrial training in the narrower sense of these words ’ , but should involve ‘ everything which leads to a wider outlook and a broader life ’ . |
| 21 | What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years . |
| 22 | What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years . |
| 23 | Table I.2 , which shows the expectation of further life in years and of ultimate age at various ages for men and women at various periods of the twentieth century , is another expression of their different life survival patterns and of how these have changed over time . |
| 24 | Following copulation a further life cycle is initiated . |
| 25 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 26 | It reveals a possibility of human nature , a possibility of a nobler , freer , happier life than could otherwise be achieved . |
| 27 | Five of them feature as their main character Inspector Alan Grant , a gentleman police officer in the style often favoured by women writers , ‘ not coarse like a bobby ’ and with independent means ‘ to smooth and embroider life ’ . |
| 28 | As they begin to remember their younger life and what their job was or the day they went on holiday to Margate , the more they may begin to make links with things happening today . |
| 29 | The book includes consideration of health promotion in later life ; the relationship of World Health Organisation targets to the care of older adults ; and the specific needs of ethnic minority older people and of frail , vulnerable older people . |
| 30 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |