Sentence examples for fewer productive from inspiring English sources

Age discrimination is inevitable because, in many situations, older hires are more expensive (because of higher pension-funding costs), harder to train (because they may be less malleable than younger workers), and less able to make a payback on the training (because they have fewer productive years left).

Two, the very wealthy have increasingly fewer productive ways in which to invest their wealth and get a decent return.

Getting Mutombo thrown out was one of the few productive things Thomas did all night.

But once he got that off his back, he wrote his next symphony during a few productive months.

Which brings us to Labor Day, aptly named because we are about to embark on the only few productive weeks of the year.

But a hunch is a hunch, nothing more, and the first few months of the season could indicate whether Delgado's days of being a top power hitter have passed or if he still has a few productive years left.

He has been one of the few productive hitters for the Giants, who ranked 27th in the majors in runs per game through Wednesday, but lead the National League West on the strength of their pitching.

We drove around for a while, up and down the deserted grid of streets, before visiting one of the few productive units in the place: a car factory that was knocking out overpriced Chinese SUVs for the domestic market.

In the first decade of his career he managed double figures only once – in 2000-01 with Stockport - but after a few productive seasons in Milton Keynes, Lambert took a punt on the then 31-year-old Wilbraham in January 2011.

This was before I discovered a good therapist, before I discovered Prozac as well as the automatic-hyphenation command that tightened all those ugly gaps between words, before I got married and had children and learned to live outside my own head, at least for a few productive hours a day.

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