Sentence examples for half the labour from inspiring English sources

The service sector was booming, and privatization had resulted in about half the labour force working in the private sector.

Ron Austin Hadleigh, Suffolk Roy Hattersley thinks "half the Labour party" is opposed to Jeremy Corbyn's policies.

Thanks largely to baroque regulation, half the labour force toils in the informal economy, unable to reap the productivity gains that come from technology and greater scale.Fixing these problems requires Latin America's political leaders to rediscover an appetite for reform.

But there are at least three reasons why now is an especially bad time to be watering down their commitment: firstly, agreeing with half the Labour front bench hardly makes them look distinctive and anti-establishment.

There are a few who, despite the risk of looking chaotically undemocratic, simply enjoin him to go: over half the Labour supporters in a Populus poll for the Times want him out.Mr Brown can scarcely complain about disloyalty, for he helped to inculcate a taste for plots and mutinies during his long march to Downing Street.

And a Welsh Labour source said "around half" the Labour assembly group feel the same.

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.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn's so-called 50/50 cabinet was seemingly a changing moment for women at Westminster, with them occupying half of the Labour front bench for the first time.