Sentence examples for proportion of labour from inspiring English sources

If a significant proportion of Labour supporters vote tactically this time, Letwin could easily be defeated by the Liberal Democrat candidate Justine McGuinness.

And, as an insurance policy, they can also press for the reduction in the proportion of Labour MPs needed to nominate a leadership contender.

Once the hereditaries have gone, the Lords will consist entirely of government appointees with, says the government, an increased proportion of Labour appointees to compensate for the present Tory majority.

A considerable proportion of labour in the traditional agricultural sector was thus thought to contribute little or nothing to total output and to really be in a state of disguised unemployment.

The descriptive statistics in Table 1 show that the proportion of family migrants among the 635 Poles and 298 Bulgarians is small in comparison with the proportion of labour migrants.

"The mayor of London appealed to so many Londoners, including a substantial proportion of Labour voters, because he let no chance go by over the last four years to defy the Tory leader", wrote Mr Johnson's biographer Andrew Gimson in The Observer.

The proportion of the labour force in work in the UK is currently about 76%.

Industrial activity, including construction, employs a significant proportion of the labour force.

Despite the imposition of crisis taxes, there are 6,000 German businesses in Hungary, employing 300,000 people, a sizeable proportion of the labour force.

In the early 21st century, services accounted for roughly four-fifths of the state's economic output and nearly the same proportion of the labour pool.

The service sector contributes a relatively small amount to the country's GDP and employs only a small proportion of the labour force.