Sentence examples for half employment from inspiring English sources

But that downturn was relatively brief: within a year and half, employment was back to its pre-recession level).

Were the market for higher education to perform in future as that for newspapers has done over the past decade or two, universities' revenues would fall by more than half, employment in the industry would drop by nearly 30% and more than 700 institutions would shut their doors.

Our leader notes that if universities were to face the same conditions over the next 10 to 20 years that daily newspapers faced over the last 10 to 20, then "revenues would fall by more than half, employment in the industry would drop by nearly 30% and more than 700 institutions would shut their doors".

More than half requested employment assistance.

It would be a success if we got half the employment gains we got in 2007".

The country's strength, and weakness, is that more than half its employment and well over half its manufacturing comes from foreign-owned firms.

Until the 1960s the latter had narrowly based economies largely dependent on the textile trade, which still provided more than half the employment of women.

A middle group of 15,000 firms making standardised products that compete mainly on price accounts for 63% of sales and nearly half of employment.

Even then, though, it took a little over four years, rather than six and a half, for employment to reach its pre-recession peak.

Like Greece, Israel had a relatively small, reasonably well-educated Mediterranean population; like Greece, it had a public sector that accounted for at least half of employment, and an economy founded on tourism, agriculture, tax evasion, and corruption.

Services, including retail trade, public administration, defense, and tourism, account for a significant portion of GDP although Tunisia's military spending, as a percentage of gross national product, is well below the world average and for nearly half of employment.