I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a divorce settlement (= an agreement about money and property at the end of a marriage )
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She acquired full ownership of the building in her 1986 divorce settlement.
be divorced from reality (= not connected in any way to what is really happening )
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His ideas are completely divorced from reality.
divorce proceedings
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His wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings.
filed for divorce
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The Morrisons have filed for divorce .
grounds for divorce
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Mental cruelty can be grounds for divorce .
petitioning for divorce
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More and more couples are petitioning for divorce .
sued for divorce (= in order to end a marriage )
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He is being sued for divorce by his wife.
tax/copyright/divorce etc law(s)
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an accountant who knows about tax law
the divorce rate
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The UK has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
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You tell her from me the divorce courts are never far yonder.
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The Victorians introduced plain-clothes detectives and the divorce courts .
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I think I was destroyed long before the divorce courts .
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He was fixing to get rid of the first one in the divorce courts .
decree
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In 1989 more than 25,000 divorce decrees were made because of the husband's adultery, 18,000 because of the wife's.
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She moved to Chelsea and waited for Joyce's divorce decree to become absolute.
law
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Yet the liberal interpretation of divorce laws appears to have led to the alarming trends already observed.
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For purposes of consistency and enforcement across state lines, divorce laws need to be substantially federalized by the national village.
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The story of marriage and divorce law is extremely complicated.
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No state has yet repealed its divorce law .
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Our divorce laws are still, regrettably, largely adversarial.
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A number of important social reforms have resulted from ballot bills such as abortion and divorce law reform.
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Remember, though, divorce laws don't discriminate.
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The church's view, that marriages sanctioned by religious ritual should not be broken, is reflected in divorce laws .
lawyer
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Or get in touch with the Solicitor's Family Law Association,, whose members are all experienced divorce lawyers .
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Marriage teeters on the line between a cooperative venture and a form of mutual exploitation-ask any divorce lawyer .
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I can only assume they're taking bungs from divorce lawyers .
petition
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First of all, there are ways that missing husbands can be traced so that the divorce petition can be sent to them.
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The divorce petition was later dropped.
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In the divorce petition he claimed, interalia, interim and permanent joint custody of, and access to, the child.
proceeding
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She dropped divorce proceedings hoping the ban would be lifted.
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Given the quick nature of the divorce proceedings , it appears most of the hard negotiations are out of the way.
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Awife whose solicitors have been negligent in negotiating a financial settlement in her divorce proceedings is entitled to damages against the solicitors.
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A wife, who had been married for six years, consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings .
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It's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again.
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It meant solicitors, divorce proceedings .
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Except in divorce proceedings , commencement by petition is now very rare.
rate
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The overall divorce rate is 20 percent.
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This is our answer to the tragically high divorce rate twenty-five years ago.
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The divorce rate rose from almost zero to 0.9 per cent in 1985 and 1.8 per cent in 1995.
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However, if current divorce rates continue this will be true of many more in future.
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But by the late I980s, the Catholic divorce rate had climbed to almost 30 percent.
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In 1961, before the Divorce Law Reform Act was introduced, the divorce rate was only 2.1.
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The national divorce rate dropped, if infinitesimally, from 1992 to 1994, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
settlement
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It's judged in somewhat the same way as a divorce settlement , the same sort of amount.
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This partner had been given several million dollars as part of a divorce settlement .
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Her kisses and cuddles with Bryan could drastically reduce the payout she would receive as part of a divorce settlement .
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A final divorce settlement still needs to be worked out.
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Instead, court testimony revealed that Jerry Garcia asked her to draft a divorce settlement , which he signed.
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It is Mr Ekdahl and his puny divorce settlement .
■ VERB
end
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Of course it won't end in divorce .
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She met and moved in with Larry Flor about a year ago after her marriage ended in divorce .
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But how long do you have to decide whether her adultery should end in divorce ?
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One study in the early I970s indicated that only 16 percent of Catholic marriages ended in divorce .
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Of every five marriages, two will end in divorce .
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A marriage to a resident ended quickly in divorce .
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From 1989, with around 165,000 divorces perannum, we are getting on for almost one in two marriages ending in divorce.
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His first marriage, to heiress Catherine Mellon, ended in divorce , and he reportedly received a $ 7 million settlement.
file
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But she filed for divorce in June last year after a series of violent rows.
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Flinn says this guy lied to her, saying he was legally separated from his wife and had filed for divorce .
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The very next day I saw a solicitor and filed for divorce .
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Though she has filed for divorce , Anne Mirretti, 38, asked the judge to have pity on her husband.
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Danielle has since filed for divorce .
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Like the dated documents that mark the summer Jerry and I filed for divorce .
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Within months of filing for divorce , he had set up home with Boon co-star Liz Carling and they talked of marriage.
get
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Yes, he was trying to get a divorce but he couldn't.
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Cohabitors bicker less if they do marry and fight less during the breakup if they do get a divorce .
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And in the hallowed world of television, this change is akin to Charles and Di getting a divorce .
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But Mrs Melderis does not get a divorce , no one ever does.
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Can you still get your divorce on such puny, immediately regretted unfaithfulness?
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Oh yes, we can leave the country and go to Berlin, where we can get a divorce .
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The last thing that Mrs Keppel would have been encouraged to do was to get a divorce .
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And Millie was able to get a divorce , and of course the daughters, including my grandmother, stayed with her.
grant
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Former tennis star Boris Becker and his wife Barbara have been granted a divorce in Munich.
obtain
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You will need to tell your mum to consult a solicitor if she now wishes to obtain a divorce .
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Though they could be divorced by their husbands, they could not obtain a divorce themselves.
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That is quite a different matter from filling in forms stored in computers and obtaining quickie divorces .
seek
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The client originally attended the appointment to seek a divorce and sort out her problems with maintenance.
sue
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These pictures were the most sensational evidence when her second husband, the Duke of Argyll, sued for divorce .
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Her granddaughter the Countess Olenska wishes to sue her husband for divorce .
want
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Via his lawyer, Sam refused to give Clare money because he didn't want a divorce .
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I want a divorce from our deal.
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I want a divorce , Julius.
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She can say All right, you want your divorce ?
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The first time it was me who wanted a divorce , but the second time it wasn't my choice.
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I hate him and I wanted to get a divorce .
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But earlier this year she told him she wanted a divorce .
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I am in love with the King and I want a divorce .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divorce papers
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It is the divorce papers that are being discussed at Camp David.
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Now it seems that Mom has her head in the medicine cabinet and divorce papers in her hand.
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Wagenbach deferred ruling on the divorce papers until the state seeks to introduce them as evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A third of all marriages in Britain end in divorce .
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Caroline's husband asked her for a divorce and she agreed.
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Gwen has just been through a bitter divorce .
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Half the marriages in this country end in divorce .
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I've only seen my ex-wife once since the divorce .
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It's much too easy to get a divorce nowadays.
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The divorce rate has risen steadily since the 1950s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is too much like a divorce .
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Many say they have seen too many bad marriages and divorces even to try it themselves.
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One study in the early I970s indicated that only 16 percent of Catholic marriages ended in divorce .
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Or see them through an abortion, a divorce , a gruelling court-case?
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Sometimes through abandonment; more often through non-marriage or divorce .
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The cancer was diagnosed one and a half years after the divorce .
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Wagenbach deferred ruling on the divorce papers until the state seeks to introduce them as evidence.
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Yet the liberal interpretation of divorce laws appears to have led to the alarming trends already observed.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
couple
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The couple , who divorced last June, had parted several times.
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The couple divorced in 1992, then attempted a yearlong reconciliation starting in May 1993.
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Since his arrest in 1991 the couple have divorced .
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Three years later the couple divorced .
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The couple divorced after Lott went off to college.
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The marriage broke down in 1934, but the couple were never divorced .
husband
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Maybe her husband , who had divorced her?
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She had a husband , but she divorced him.
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Her husband quickly divorced her and married again.
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She has long since forgiven her husband , whom she divorced before she knew he was ill.
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She lost the baby and she and her husband divorced three years later.
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But when he was eight or nine, Margo and her husband divorced .
parent
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He looked more closely at her, remembering her: she was the child from Sea House, her parents were divorced .
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His parents divorced before his second birthday.
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In 1989, the number of children under 16 with parents who divorced was 148 thousand.
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My parents were divorced when I was six months old.
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But then, in 1986, my father left home and my parents were divorced .
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Music and creativity were always major factors in the Peyroux household before her parents were divorced , the singer recalls.
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They were the only pupils at Silfield school whose parents were divorced .
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His parents told my parents, who are divorced .
reality
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Accordingly, the ideologies they adopted were divorced from reality .
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However hard they try, business schools are divorced from the realities of business.
wife
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Adultery was the sole ground, but a wife could only divorce her husband if accompanied by some other matrimonial transgression.
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The general and his wife were later divorced .
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When she told him calmly about the baby, he had genuinely wished that his wife would divorce him.
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His first two wives divorced him, citing his stinginess as their major complaint.
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Crowley's wife divorced him on grounds of admitted adultery in 1910.
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He and his second wife divorced last year.
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A girl he had come to admire in Sumatra was brought to Java to be his third wife after he divorced Inggit.
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Fuller and his wife were recently divorced , with his wife getting custody of their 3-year-old son Preston.
years
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My sister was divorced two years ago, and he doesn't really get on with her.
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She married a man 15 years her senior and they divorced five years later.
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But soon afterwards we moved to London and got divorced three or four years later.
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But they divorced five years later.
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She'd been divorced for 12 years .
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He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years.
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At twenty-five she had married a colonel, a career move, and divorced him three years later.
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Barry had been divorced for twelve years , had been a member of Dateline but then had moved because of work.
■ VERB
marry
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She had been married and divorced since they had seen her.
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Single, married , divorced or separated, or widowed, about 69 percent think women want to be married.
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You've been married , divorced , spent 12 years apart, and then married again.
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He married and divorced Ava Gardner.
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I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced .
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They conceive a child, marry and quickly divorce at the grandparents' behest.
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Griffiths too had been married and divorced .
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They are married , divorced , separated, widowed, and never married.
separate
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In the end Barry and Helen did separate and eventually they divorced .
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Twenty percent of single women and 18 percent of women who are now separated or divorced answered yes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Finally, after years of unhappy marriage, Eva divorced Stanley.
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He kept promising her that he would divorce his wife, but he never actually did it.
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Petra's parents divorced when she was about seven years old.
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She's afraid of what her husband might do if she tries to divorce him.
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We divorced after six years of marriage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when he was eight or nine, Margo and her husband divorced.
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Griffiths too had been married and divorced.
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I always say though, that you know, you divorce them.
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I think he may have wanted to divorce her, but it never got to that point.
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Maybe her husband, who had divorced her?
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The couple divorced after Lott went off to college.
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You see, she was four months pregnant when they divorced.