Hang around long enough at Luton and you will meet a businessman or woman, usually middle-aged owners of companies in the south-east, who spend half their week as lotus eaters in Provence, nipping back for the other half to oversee their business being handled day-to-day by their staff.
That translates into bigger deductions now, particularly for a business funding pensions for middle-aged owners.
After graduating from a university in Guangzhou, Li found an internship at a local electronics company, where she caught the eye of the company's married middle-aged owner.
Her male counterpart, Jean-René (the Belgian comic actor Benoît Poelvoorde), is the middle-aged owner of the Chocolate Mill, a failing enterprise whose products are deemed old-fashioned by those in the know.
The curtain comes up on two men — Donny (Peter Gerety), the middle-aged owner of the house, and a ponytailed teen-ager called Davey (Domhnall Gleeson) — discussing a cat that is lying on the kitchen table with half of its head missing.
Some of them started to come by regularly — ones who took a liking to this little backstreet bar with its wonderful old willow tree, its quiet middle-aged owner, vintage records spinning on a turntable, and the gray cat sacked out in a corner.
The most dangerous delusion of all, however, is that it doesn't matter if this mild correction to overheated house prices turns into a full-blown crash, because those who'd suffer most are comfortable middle-aged owner-occupiers who can afford the hit.
The middle-aged owner stared unblinkingly at the clock between orders.
Job opportunities are easier to access elsewhere, so "what you get is increasingly [rural] settlements of middle class, middle-aged car owners," Richardson observes.
Trainers today have to be at least partly in the business of making what are called "bombproof" horses -- animals that put the welfare of their middle-aged female owners ahead of their own.
For example, let's say there's a hashtag relating to 1990s nostalgia, and your brand is a sales firm that caters to experienced, middle-aged business owners.
