Example sentences of "levels of unemployment [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | High levels of unemployment during the 1980s , for example , mean that labour forces in the older industrialised societies are not necessarily so expensive relative to those of the Third World . |
| 2 | Given the well-documented existence of widespread discrimination against black job-seekers it is hardly surprising that levels of unemployment within the black communities are substantially higher than those for white people . |
| 3 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |
| 4 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 5 | Increasing levels of unemployment in the recent past have revived concern over the possible relationship between unemployment and ill-health . |
| 6 | He pointed out that Northern Ireland has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the UK , at around 14pc , and the majority of households were in the lowest socio-economic groups . |