(1) The king was a widower , his wife having died giving birth to his daughter.(2) A widower , whose wife died from leukaemia last year, is appealing to people to join the bone marrow register on her birthday.(3) In the past they've tried to engineer a meeting with a local widower who lost his wife and children in a car accident.(4) Married to a widower with three children, her position is not much better than it was 16 years ago.(5) Watching the race will be a young widower whose wife died of cervical cancer in March.(6) Benefit chiefs today apologised to a widower after claiming his wife was still living with him - five years after her death.(7) So she is married off as the second wife of an elderly widower in a neighbouring village.(8) Northern Rivers veterans and their partners, widows and widowers and children will be better off following the latest increases in veterans' pensions and allowances.(9) Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.(10) Since then, hundreds of would-be widows and widowers have applied for what's billed as u2018post-mortem matrimony.u2019(11) Widows and widowers in South China's Guangdong Province need not provide former marriage certificates when asking for a remarriage registration, according to the Guangzhou Daily.(12) We quite often have people in their late 60s and early 70s who sell their home - and married couples; not just widows or widowers - who decide that the time has come for them to move on.(13) Foster carers do not need any special qualification - young couples, single people, widows and widowers and retired couples can apply.(14) There's a string of more complicated provisions that affect, for example, widows, widowers and divorcees.(15) Where the widows or widowers have died there may be other surviving family, like grandchildren.(16) Since widowers have higher death rates than married people, 22 23 controlling for widowhood would be expected to reduce the relative risks in this and other studies of smoking in spouses.
