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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, I'm Neil.
And I'm Rob.
Now, Rob, can you complete this saying?
Love and marriage go together, like?
Love and marriage go together, like a horse and carriage.
That's right.
And when was the last time you saw a horse and carriage?
Well, that would have been quite a while ago.
They're quite rare these days, not on everyday sight.
Indeed, and according to recent statistics,
marriage in the UK is getting rarer too.
Not as rare as seeing a horse and carriage, but the numbers are falling.
Before we look at this topic in a bit more detail, a little quiz for our listeners.
Yes, according to the UK's Office for National Statistics,
how many opposite sex marriages were there in 2015?
Was it A, 239,000?
B, 309,000?
Or C, 339,000?