11.   These tales are populated by lonely middle-aged women searching for love and, for the most part, coming up empty.

12.   They went from being lonely women unable to find a mate to prostitutes, high-priced though they may be.

13.   Who could oppose this modest proposal to extend connubial rights, inheritance-tax advantages and benefits blessings to millions of lonely women and angry extra males?

14.   Yet the queen was, after all, a lonely woman and no less vulnerable to a selfless love than less royal mortals.

15.   Or they transform her from a weekend friend to a lonely woman they invite for dinner on Tuesday nights.

16.   It tells the story of a young boy and the lonely woman who befriends him.

17.   Lonely Russian women.

18.   One nightspot will be organizing male strip shows for all those lonely women whose partners have abandoned them for the World Cup.

19.   The film tells the story of a lonely woman who offers herself to people she meets on the street in a desperate attempt to connect with others.

20.   Often, they preyed on lonely women secretaries in government offices, enveigling them through romantic adventures into betraying state secrets.