Affluence Sentence Examples

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  • When they won the lottery, their sudden affluence caused old friends to feel envious.

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  • The poverty of some is enhanced by the great affluence of others.

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  • Designer clothes are a sign of affluence, but only if you're not going into debt to buy a new outfit.

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  • Often constructed at home, the designs and craftsmanship were also symbols of affluence.

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  • Her need to break-free from standard cultural restraints on women and her glorified image of affluence, led to creations that were both glamorous and comfortable.

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  • There's also more affluence, so people buy books.

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  • Rising affluence will generate new sources of private capital to finance the increasingly voracious appetite of SMEs.

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  • At the same time both population and growing affluence are increasing demand.

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  • The opening of the Picadilly line extension in 1933 brought greater affluence to the area.

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  • Despite our open and co-operative relationships with many other countries in the world, we remain jealously protective of our position and affluence.

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  • Within a very few years the sale of the History was sufficient to gain for the author a larger revenue than had ever before been known in his country to flow from literature, and to place him in comparative affluence.

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  • In the early 1950s the number of television sets in the UK began to expand along with rising affluence.

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  • Already, in South-East Asia increased affluence is leading to much higher demand for primary food production.

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  • The 1950s and 60s saw a country still enjoying post-war economic affluence, full employment and a new sense of opportunity and change.

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  • The higher rates in London and the South East reflect the relative affluence of the area compared with the rest of the county.

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  • Deprivation categories are used to divide a population into groups based on the material affluence / deprivation of the area where they live.

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  • As wages rose, growing working class affluence reduced the absolute need for a self-help system.

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  • What distinguishes the current spate of job losses from previous cutbacks in the UK is the relative affluence of many of the people affected.

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  • Increased affluence from tourism has also resulted in greater ecological degradation.

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  • But they are not to do with the existing degree of private affluence and public squalor.

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  • The designer fashion section matters as it is meeting the needs of increasing consumer affluence and global consumption of fashion products and services.

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  • His demands were not small; for, with an ambition mingled, as his letters show, with strong family affection, he aimed at placing all his relatives in positions of affluence and dignity; and many a rich benefice and important public office was appropriated by him to that purpose.

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  • This was why he'd followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps in running a militia to challenge the elite's power and affluence while the rest of the people served the elites or went into the regular military, the only two reputable professions.

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