Example sentences of "the number of workers [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |