| The collapse of European fertility rates shows the force of present-day welfare state pressures. |
| She said that a large proportion of present-day nurses are degree students who have spent more time in a classroom than on the wards. |
| We pity our forebears for the pain and suffering they endured along the way and revel in our comfortable present-day lives. |
| An important feature of present-day globalisation is the advent of a consumer credit society. |
| Like most elderly folk I find the present-day world much more complicated than that of my early years. |
| The teachings of Jesus Christ are the reasons, basically, for present-day standards of behaviour. |
