1 She is not of marriageable age.

2 How many marriageable girls does a man meet?

3 But there were few marriageable girls left.

4 She had reached marriageable age.

5 Young women of conspicuously marriageable age never sat there.

6 This correction is usually negligible for the most marriageable age groups.

7 There was as a result a shortage of marriageable young men among the lower Patels.

8 The lusty youth spotted that marriageable girl, but he didn't speak directly to her.

9 Because the way home is more devious, marriageable woman feels the situation is bad.

10 The village has over 30 men of marriageable age, but no single women.

11 From the practice of law, the marriageable age lawmaking of the Tang Dynasty was well put into use.

12 Zuwaya men, for instance were extremely careful not to touch the marriageable daughters of their kin, friends and neighbours.

13 All too often she merely gives up her remaining marriageable years to them.

14 Originally they remained priestesses for only five years: that is, until they reached marriageable age.

15 Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest.

16 Herodotus described auctions held in ancient Babylon to sell young maidens of marriageable age.

17 There was once a king who had three sons of marriageable age.

18 Back in Classical Latin the word had been virgo, as in the astrological sign, and aside from "virgin," virgo had meant a "maiden," "young woman," or "girl of marriageable age."

19 In 2001, "Marriage" amendment process, in 1980, taking into account legal marriageable age set by the basic feasible, so this did not change.

20 With or without campus jargon, the annoyingly unfair fact is that marriageable men tend to like women who are young, fertile and intellectually unthreatening.