Below you will find example sentences with "poverty line". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Poverty Line in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: poverty
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 26
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "poverty line" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as below the poverty line, below the poverty line after housing, living, citation and half stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with offensive line, finish line, defensive line, child poverty, poverty rate and poverty rates, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with poverty line
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
In other words, the WB poverty line is the official (Tendulkar) poverty line. (13 words)
There are those who live in poverty—they are the one at the poverty line. (15 words)
Do we really want 12-year-olds working to help support their families, below the poverty line? (17 words)
Data on the share of individuals living below the poverty line, as well as the share of adults 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree came from the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and are five-year estimates. (45 words)
This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members. citation In the same year 4.0 million children, 31% of the total, lived in households below the poverty line after housing costs were taken into account. (42 words)
This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members. citation In the same year, 4.0 million children, 31% of the total, lived in households below the poverty line, after housing costs were taken into account. (42 words)
Do we really want 12-year-olds working to help support their families, below the poverty line? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
When you are a developing country, when you have a hundred million vulnerable people, half below the poverty line and half just above, a price shock can send the other fifty below the poverty line.
Later a committee led by C. Rangarajan was set up to review the methodology for the poverty line as there were concerns that the Tendulkar poverty line was too low.
Some more may have breached the poverty line under the NDA government, even while some who were hit hard by demonetisation and the flawed GST may have slipped below the poverty line.
In other words, the WB poverty line is the official (Tendulkar) poverty line.
Our suggested poverty line implies 33 per cent poor (the higher Rs 2,100 WEF poverty line yields 36 per cent poor).
In Malawi, where almost half of the population lives below poverty line and 25 in every 100 people in extreme poverty, only a few girls and women can afford them.
With this growing disparity between the north and the south, we shall eventually create two Nigerias – one, relatively well off and living above the poverty line and the other sinking deeper into the morass of extreme poverty.
Such a bill comes as the country continues to deal with mass poverty, with an estimated 87 million people in the nation living below the poverty line.
There are those who live in poverty—they are the one at the poverty line.
There are 67,000 more children below the poverty line once housing costs are taken into account - showing that the high cost of housing is a key driver in child poverty rates.
According to the organization, in Germantown 26 percent of residents live in deep poverty, which is living on less than 50 percent of the federal poverty line.
According to the World Bank, a person can be said to be living in extreme poverty, if he or she lives below the poverty line of $1.90 or N693.5 per day.
Poverty and destitution are stubbornly high: around 10 million children are out of school, a quarter of citizens lack access to safe drinking water, and half are living below the $1.90 poverty line.
About 68% of Zambians live below the recognised national poverty line, citation with rural poverty rates standing at about 78% citation and urban rates at about 53%. citation Unemployment and underemployment in urban areas are serious problems.
Since then "businessmen say it has only gotten worse." citation ;Poverty Estimates of the number of Saudis below the poverty line range from between 12.7% citation and 25%.
This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members. citation In the same year 4.0 million children, 31% of the total, lived in households below the poverty line after housing costs were taken into account.
This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members. citation In the same year, 4.0 million children, 31% of the total, lived in households below the poverty line, after housing costs were taken into account.
Among these new hires, 35% were unemployed in the six months prior to joining Sama, and 56% were living below the international poverty line.
Data on the share of individuals living below the poverty line, as well as the share of adults 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree came from the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and are five-year estimates.
Do we really want 12-year-olds working to help support their families, below the poverty line?