Example sentences of "the number [prep] workers " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 2 | This was clearly reflected in the number of workers and mills engaged in making cloth . |
| 3 | The figures in column ( 3 ) show the number of registered job-seekers as a percentage of the number of workers in the social sector ( both productive and non-productive ) . |
| 4 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 5 | With the company having invested heavily in plant-specific training for a particular worker , and output from the plant not being directly related to the number of workers in the plant , firms operating these technologies will be reluctant to hire and fire such highly trained workers in line with fluctuations in product demand . |
| 6 | But that is measured by the number of workers — which has declined sharply . |
| 7 | Planning is detailed and involves the number of workers , working capital and raw materials that each firm can have . |
| 8 | A transfer on such a scale , from those who work to those who do not , may be manageable today ; it will be less so in the early years of the next century , when the number of workers per pensioner will start to fall sharply . |
| 9 | By itself this association between earnings and company size is not unique to Japan , but as we saw in the last chapter the number of workers affected is greater . |
| 10 | AIthough the number of workers in the transport industries may have declined , it does not follow that the number of transport workers in the wider economy has also fallen or fallen to the same extent . |
| 11 | Until 1910 organized labour protest was subdued but as the industrial boom gathered pace , bringing the number of workers in mining and large-sale industry to over three million by 1914 , the relative industrial calm was broken . |
| 12 | This result underlines the importance of employing a measure which takes account of the number of workers in question in relation to the total number of employees in the organisation when testing propositions about the influence of size on personnel practices . |
| 13 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 14 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 15 | Indeed there remains sufficient slack in some sections of the labour force and enough new technological innovations on the horizon for there to be no end in sight to the continuing reduction in the number of workers in the industry . |
| 16 | On arable farms , traditionally the most labour-intensive section of the industry and now the most capital-intensive , the changes wrought by technological innovation have not only resulted in a reduction in the number of workers , but a dramatic decrease in the division of labour among those that remain . |
| 17 | Mechanization , by reducing the number of workers employed on each farm has brought farmer and farm worker into a more personal , face-to-face and less formal relationship with each other . |
| 18 | National income [ she concludes ] was increased by an amount equivalent to 0.3% per annum due to the decline in mortality rates , from the 1900 level ( assuming , as does Denison that a 1% rise in the number of workers , other factors held constant , yields a 0.73% rise in national income for this period ) . |
| 19 | Even as a proportion of the number of workers on strike for two weeks or more , the figures are still very small — 4.4 per cent in 1965 and 36.8 per cent in 1971 , the year of the post office workers ' strike . |
| 20 | This has led to a changing ratio between service sector and industrial workers , in the same way that the number of industrial workers earlier overtook the number of workers on the land ( Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 21 | Secondly , there has been a drop in the number of school leavers as a result of the fall in the birth rate between 1964 and 1977 causing a drop in the number of workers from this age group . |
| 22 | The tax base represents the number of workers and taxpayers in the country , and all welfare payments are made from the taxes taken from the employed . |
| 23 | Labour demand is denoted generally by where N denotes the number of workers demanded , w is the wage rate , and the subscripts are the usual notation for the first and second order derivatives . |
| 24 | The number of workers involved in strikes had risen from 225,000 in May to 1,000,000 in May and to 1,500,000 in June . |
| 25 | There was a dramatic fall too in the number of workers whose radiation dose exceeded 15 millisieverts , down from more than 100 to less than 10 . |
| 26 | In terms of Fig. 10–5 , if is established , how is it that the number of workers recorded as unemployed is measured between points 2 and 4 rather than the real wage falling so that labour market equilibrium is established at Trade union power is an obvious explanation and is explored further in the context of coalitions below . |
| 27 | There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third . |
| 28 | Whereas all the trends erm I would submit , sir in in economic activity , are suggesting that employ average employment levels and densities are falling , partly because of improved working conditions that workers require and also because of er modern processes and site layouts er have lower densities , all of which suggests that depression on the number of workers per hectare rather than an increase which is where the county 's head is at . |
| 29 | So the ‘ quantity ’ of services provided ( measured , for example , by the number of workers employed in providing them ) rose no faster than output as a whole . |