Sentence examples for surplus daughters from inspiring English sources

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Those with surplus daughters often do not.

Many families with unregistered surplus daughters, rather than leaving them in the "care" of China's awful orphanages, simply deposit them on the doorstep of a childless neighbour.

Charming though it sounds, it reflected the deplorable custom, still prevalent in late Roman society when the Byzantine church was struggling to establish the supremacy of its values, of selling surplus daughters into bondage.

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Killing lactating females is good strategy if you want to control feral species numbers, and at least some of the young are probably what biologists call "the doomed surplus" (my daughter is dumbfounded by that expression).

That enabled our seven-year-old daughter to run a startup selling our egg surplus (image, below).

The production of diploid males leads to a distortion of the population sex ratio, and thus to a surplus of males [ 18], and females inseminated by diploid males produce fewer daughters than females inseminated by haploid males [ 44].

a surplus.

11 surplus.

Current account in surplus.

Have a surplus?

That surplus had several causes.

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