The phrase "are more single" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used in a context comparing the relationship status of different groups or individuals, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "In this survey, younger participants are more single than their older counterparts."
Alternatives: "are more unmarried" or "are more alone".
Mr. Tinley joked that the club is a "target-rich environment" — meaning there are more single men than women.
The reason there are more single people now than ever is not that they do not want to be married but that they are not meeting people.
"More lesbians and gays are coming out, more people are co-habiting, there are more single parents, so it's simply not possible to be moralistic about the things that we used to be.
The new mayor ought to try to tackle another housing challenge, posed by the city's changing demographic: there are more single households, thanks to the young urban migration and the silver tsunami, that gathering wave of urban-minded retirees.
This is in turn reflected also in the marital status distribution; there are more single people in the sample, than there are in the general population.
This is due to the fact that in cities, there are more single young men of this age than women, as well as the fact that young people are more likely to purchase property and live independently in the cities.
This means there are more single-income households, which obviously earn less than two-income households.
There are more single-person households than there are married-with-children households.
I think there are more single-parent families, more small families and more families that reflect a multiplicity of ethnic and religious backgrounds".
Startups targeting giant food and agriculture companies, such as Monsanto, might only need just one customer, but those developing products to help small farmers have to hustle quite a bit more to scale the business, as there are more single-family farmers who operate independently.
Partly because there are so many more intrusive laws and restrictions; partly because people and businesses are increasingly willing to assert their rights; partly because there are more single-issue pressure-groups around willing to back such actions.There seems to be more judicial review when governments have big majoritiesPolitics may have something to do with it.
