Sentence examples for half of the labour from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the 21st century about half of the labour force was employed in various service industries.

As The Economist went to press, around half of the Labour rebels seemed to have bought the new deal.

Yvette Cooper is pinning her hopes on the fact that half of the Labour membership has yet to vote.

Half of the labour force in Liaoning's mining cities, such as Fuxin (with a population of 1.5m) and Beipiao (630,000), are jobless.It was not always so.

This would be done partly by bringing into the formal economy the half of the labour force that works off the books.

By 1975 these activities accounted for half of the labour force of the United States, giving rise to the so-called information society.

Nearly one-half of the labour force and the GNP are sustained by services.

For months their propaganda has yoked Khan's name to Corbyn's, making much of the fact that Khan nominated him to join the Labour leadership contest but not, of course, mentioning that Khan, like around half of the 35 Labour MPs who helped Corbyn in the same way, didn't actually vote for him.

If Labour wins all 100 target seats, there will be over 80 women Labour MPs, compared to only 16 Tory women and nearly half of the new Labour MPs will be women.

"Nick Clegg won the first half of the week, Labour lost the second half".

The percentage of female workers has risen to almost half of the total labour force, and women have greater representation in the service industry.