The typical voter is middle-class and middle-aged, the seat having one of the highest proportions of voters over 40 and a majority of workers in managerial, technical and professional jobs.
BBC: NEWS | VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Brentwood & Ongar
His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
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We humans are an "information economy" and middle age is the time when we pass on most of that information - this is why middle-aged people like being listened to.
And their middle-aged, middle class children will also freak out if you cut their benefits.
So we collected all the required documents and gave them to a stern-looking middle-aged woman at the office.
The conference itself is a very dark-suited middle-aged male affair, with many of the delegates coming from the security industry.
"Because of the race we now have hoards of lycra-clad middle-aged cyclists of both sexes who all want to ride the route, " she said.
The other is the story of Janis Adkins, a middle-aged, middle-class woman who suddenly found herself homeless after the financial crisis caused her to lose her home and previously-successful nursery.
Clint Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a tired-looking middle-aged Secret Service agent who gets wind of a plot to kill the President and marshals his flagging powers in an attempt to stop the assassin (John Malkovich).
But higher-spending middle-aged tourists want higher standards.
He was a stranger, a clean-shaven, middle-aged man, with a nose too small for his face.
Had Knox been a plain-looking, middle-aged mouse, I doubt Oggi would have cared much.
He's become particularly enthusiastic about spending on infrastructure, because of its potential to reduce joblessness among lower-skilled, middle-aged men, who are among those hardest hit by the recession.
But none of this seemed to matter to the short, long-faced, middle-aged man who was now behind the focusing cloth, clattering the shutter furiously in tenth-of-a-second bursts, to take her picture.
And that to many on the street in Jordan, as a Western T-shirted and jeans-wearing blonde middle-aged woman, I fit somewhere between and outside of gender, an entirely different kind of alien other, a sort of free-ranging cash cow perhaps better avoided.
In calm and workaday Lisbon, Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a lonely, low-key, middle-aged social activist, gently pursued by a gentleman artist, finds her elderly neighbor, Aurora (Laura Soveral), a capricious faded beauty, in decline and struggling under the loving care of a home attendant.
Long-term unemployment among middle-aged professionals, who do not qualify for workfare, is on the rise, says Leong Sze Hian, a financial expert and blogger.
And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers' blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce.
Catholics and evangelicals tut-tut, and the middle-aged try to avoid it all.
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For starters, a self-conscious, bald, middle-aged guy strutting around the court could be depressing for the fans, especially if it occurred while the Knicks were losing.
By Silicon Valley standards, 10-year-old Tesla Motors is middle-aged.
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Menke says it's a combination of the Olympics -- triathlon made its debut in the 2000 Sydney games -- a growing group of middle-aged competitors looking to reclaim their athleticism, and a desire for fitness-conscious camaraderie.
One-third of all the deaths among middle-aged men was attributed to smoking.
The remaining state-owned enterprises are grey assemblies of middle-aged men and women, with retired former employees still living in company housing on upper floors.
The critic demolished Pulitzer Prize-winner Cunningham's book about a middle-aged gallery owner attracted to his young brother-in-law in a 1, 000-word review in the Observer last January.
He imagined this fortune-telling woman at first as frumpy and middle-aged, but, when she came to give Suzie a lift to school one morning, Menna looked like a child, not much older than Jamie.
The show, with a four-person cast, goes like this: Two middle-aged ladies are in a nail salon.
Although seven out of 10 early 50-somethings quizzed for the survey defined themselves as middle-aged, the average age at which the period of life was perceived to start was 54 years and 347 days old.
Those amazing years of 60-plus home runs (and 98 mph fastballs by middle-aged Roger Clemens) changed the pleasure of watching baseball from sublime to sensational.
Since last year, when companies began cutting back full-time employees and replacing them with cheaper part-time and temporary workers, it has been the middle-aged workers who have been especially hit.
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