Sentence examples for a labour force from inspiring English sources

That is already more than 10% of a labour force growing at 2.3% a year.

"As a country we need a labour force that is available and skilled," she told me.

Imagine we have a labour force with 100 workers, 10 of which are unemployed.

So if we have 20 unemployed workers out of a labour force of 110 people, we get an 18% unemployment rate.

Whatever their background, the convicts provided a labour force, used by the government but more commonly by private settlers to whom the government assigned convicts.

There is no point in building factories and machines, they say, if the educational system does not provide a labour force capable of using them.

These rates are based on a labour-force number which excludes those in prison; if there were not five times as many blacks behind bars as whites, the figures would look even worse.There is no shortage of explanations for the gap.

A shrinking labour force implies a slower growth rate, future problems for financing public-sector pensions, and greater opposition to reform than in a more youthful country.

On the one hand, fertility meant a growing labour force and potentially a larger army.

But the educational system must not be regarded as solely a production line for a competitive labour force.

In farming, improvements in technique and equipment have made possible an increasing output from a declining labour force.