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In hospital, we face a population growing in age and waistline , a cohort of complex patients denied the social care they need in the community.
I even found I could ignore the concern for my waistline when I ate that third or fourth canapé, so long as the eggnog was spiked.
The main thing the cover makes me think is: how on earth can she bear to wear a pair of jodhpurs that tight, and what exactly is going on above the waistline?
The researchers said their findings required validation by others but pointed out that an expanding waistline had been linked to other cancers, including those of the pancreas, lining of the womb, and ovaries, possibly because midriff fat was more harmful.
I believe I have far more important things to think about than my waistline : my failure to have children, for example; my high familial risk of prostate cancer; or my lack of pension and savings, or the total impossibility of my job as a secure long-term career, or the whole world outside my stomach.
Enjoy the fruits of my labour with a clear conscience: my waistline has suffered so yours doesn't have to.
Under the plan (as under the Camp David and Taba plans) Israel will be allowed to thicken its 1967 waistline , annexing land where many settlers live, but only in exchange for giving an equivalent amount of pre-1967 Israel to the new Palestine.
However deaths from preventable causes, such as from eating and drinking to excess, have grown just as surely as the nation's waistline has expanded.
His one vice was a huge appetite for food and drink which in time produced a waistline to match.By the time he died, blind and afflicted by various ailments, he had become so much of a national institution that his wish to be buried in Westminster Abbey was instantly granted, with a large marble statue topping his grave.
Mr Sneh shows how a peace deal, involving Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan, could and would provide credible security for Israel along its narrow and vulnerable "waistline".
She loved red meat with a passion, while America switched squeamishly to chicken; her cookery included lashings of eggs, butter and cream, when the national waistline was alarmingly expanding.
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The primary grammatical function of "waistline" is as a noun . It typically functions as the subject or object of a sentence, referring to a line around the body or a measurement. As Ludwig AI indicates, it is a commonly used and accepted term.
Expression frequency: Very common
