11.   First, age, or more precisely proximity to the state-pension age, had an important bearing on early retirement.

12.   Government sources said they would not remove the right to early retirement from genuine cases.

13.   He agreed to take early retirement in June and to go on leave from yesterday.

14.   However, considerably more social stigma is attached to unemployment than to early retirement.

15.   Maybe I would explore the possibility of early retirement in the end.

16.   More and more people are taking early retirement.

17.   Mr Gubbay had already agreed to take early retirement in June but the government wants him out of the way before then.

18.   No wonder they take early retirement.

19.   Repetitive tasks, whether sorting coupons, stitching fabric or entering data, wear most workers toward early retirement.